Since 1955, among the 600+ composers selected and recommended at the International Rostrum of Composers, only 47 were women, representing roughly 7% of the total. The Hidden Treasures Mixtape offers the opportunity to (re)discover hidden gems composed by women and offer them the recognition they deserv(ed).

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The history of yaadt music, a sound born in the Cape and its surrounding towns, is shrouded in obscurity and erasure – just like the history of the people to whom it belongs. It is made in communion. As a sound, yaadt is rooted in muscle-memory and expressed in action.

Cape Town Etc

The past year was tough, agonizing and unprecedented. But in terms of music, 2020 was our Latin year.

Billboard

It’s an instrument based on the most fundamental sign of life: breath. Listen to the best music ever written for it.

The New York Times

L’homme qui avait voulu donner ses lettres de noblesse à la pop est mort dans une geôle californienne, à l’âge de 81 ans.

Le Figaro

Like all trade shows and gatherings, NAMM was faced with a choice during the COVID-hit summer months of 2020 – postpone indefinitely until in-person events are safe to go ahead as planned or reinvent as a digital proposition.

Audio Media International

In the six months to end of June 2020, audio streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music generated approximately €514.9m ($562m) in Germany, which German Music Industry Association BVMI reported was up 20.7% year-on-year.

Music Business Worldwide

The biggest players in the music scene have traditionally been Europe and the US, along with sub-markets like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China.Meanwhile, most Southeast Asian countries, being former Western colonies, tend to take influence from the West rather than developing a unique style.

KrAsia

Le secteur de la musique rapporterait autour de 80 milliards d'euros par an à l'Union européenne.

Konbini

La empresa que ha comprado los derechos de Shakira, entre otros, cotiza en la bolsa de Londres y es cruce entre un fondo de inversión y una firma de gestión de talentos.

La Vanguardia

The challenge with any online platform comes when dealing with groups, and in particular, groups that you want to make noise at roughly the same time!

Rhinegold

The link between music education and broader academic performance has recently been brought into question by research comparing the results of vast numbers of published studies.

ABC

In China, online music lessons have become the latest trend in the country's burgeoning online education business, especially as COVID-19 has restricted person-to-person piano lessons.

China Daily

Le système éducatif japonais est reconnu pour son excellence. C’est encore plus vrai de son enseignement musical, même si la forte exigence demandée aux jeunes élèves et une approche musicale « stéréotypée » peut aussi les desservir.

Res Musica

Tocar un instrumento musical tiene muchos beneficios, algunos a largo plazo: haberlo hecho de niño o de joven puede ayudar en la última etapa de la vida.

El Diario

Few Middle Eastern musicians subvert expectations quite like the Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila.

Varsity

Imagine a country where music is outlawed; where those caught playing any kind of music — from folk to classical to pop — are routinely beaten and pilloried, their instruments smashed.

Forbes

For many students, the traditional music theory core curriculum is an undesirable and yet unavoidable part of their college music experience. It becomes something to be suffered through, survived rather than savored.

New Music Box

Prenez un orchestre classique, et regardez qui se cache derrière les pupitres. La plupart du temps, au trombone, c’est un homme. Aux percussions ? Un homme. Le chef d’orchestre ? Un homme. Et à la harpe ? Une femme.

Sourdoreille

La censura y su represión ha sido el eje vertebrador de una mesa redonda en la que un filósofo, una jurista y un cantante, comandados por un crítico musical, han abordado los dilemas en torno a la libertad de creación creativa.

Público

Researchers in EPFL’s Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab in the College of Humanities used an unsupervised machine learning model to ‘listen to’ and categorize more than 13,000 pieces of Western classical music, revealing how modes – such as major and minor – have changed throughout history.

Mirage News

Does the algorithm know you too well? Here’s how to shake up your recommendations for a more varied listening experience.

Wired

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Eureka Alert

Malgré la pandémie de la Covid-19, 2020 a été une année riche en événements dans le domaine de la musique. Que nous réserve ce secteur pour 2021 ?

Forbes

Han pasado más de 40 años desde la aparición del Walkman, el primer dispositivo para escuchar música sin cables. La tecnología ha evolucionado hasta los actuales auriculares inalámbricos.

Primicias

For members of Luminous Voices, a professional choir ensemble in Alberta, Canada, rehearsing and performing safely during the pandemic has meant getting into their cars, driving to an empty parking lot and singing with each other's voices broadcast through their car radios.

NPR

From Bandcamp Fridays to Verzuz battles, these were our silver linings from a strange, stuck year in music.

Pitchfork

Tantôt relaxante, tantôt revigorante, on accorde à la musique beaucoup de vertus. Une analyse physiologique de notre perception de la musique est utile pour y voir plus clair et comprendre les disparités entre individus.

The Conversation

Un estudio realizado en Australia descubrió que los géneros el Rap, Hip Hop, Soul, R&B y Reggae, se asocian a la compasión y a la cortesía.

Duna Fm

A biologist and composer have turned the aurora borealis into sound to create a magic melding of art and nature.

The Guardian