...We can only imagine what an impoverished existence it would be without this glorious art form to accompany us, entertain us, console us, enthrall us, and ultimately, elevate and inspire us to ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. As it’s Bird Week here on Classic, I thought it might be a good moment to consider, and basically ...

I was having dinner with a visiting colleague this week when talk turned to what we were teaching this term. He mentioned the part of calculus dealing with infinite series (the bane of many students) ...

In a 1959 educational recording titled the Theory and Practice of Just Intonation musicologist J. Murray Barbour wrote, “The ideal ‘Just Intonation’ may be fully attainable in some musical fourth ...

The hermit thrush may well be the Beyoncé of the bird world thanks to its tuneful melodies, a study has revealed. Scientists have discovered that the North American songbird sings in 'harmonic series' ...

Poets frequently liken birdsong to music, but in the case of the North American hermit thrush, the comparison isn’t just lyrical—it’s mathematically accurate. When the bird sings, it adheres to the ...

Mathematics is full of numbers that seem to keep popping up out of nowhere. Take pi, for instance, which appears in pretty much everything. Here's another one: Euler's constant. Also called the ...