Musicology
Album features sound of black holes colliding 1.3 billion years ago
'Celestial Incantations' combines sounds from within our solar system and beyond with acoustic instruments on a collaborative album by musicology professor Kim Cunio, UK artist Diana Scarborough and… Audio
Queen and Coldplay are the new Beethoven and Mozart
The likes of ABBA, Queen and Coldplay should now be put on the same pedestal of the world's greatest classical composers according to a new study published in the Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and… Audio
Robert Levin
The eminent musicologist and performer speaks with Des Wilson about differences in the performing environment between Mozart and Haydn's day and our own. Audio
What makes a pop diva?
Graeme Downes, founding member of the Verlaines, songwriter, musicologist, senior Lecturer in the Department of Music at the University of Otago discusses why Adele's 'Hello' has been such a huge hit… Video, Audio
Versions of Fidelio
Michael Vinten looks at the various versions of Beethoven's only opera. Audio