Bassist Victor Wooten's book The Music Lesson is a tour de force, a bold and courageous exploration of how to shift one's consciousness and engage the world from a nonordinary perspective. This is not ...

1) Gather the objects for this activity (one for each student). Put the objects in a pile in front of you, so that you can access them easily. Ask your students to sit in a circle with you. Tip: If ...

Bates offers private lessons on a wide variety of instruments (see below). Instruction may be available in other classical, jazz, folk, and non-Western instruments when demand exists. Students are ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Division Chief Susan Vita discusses the Library of Congress' Music Division. This lesson provides an overview of the history of American music from ...

In his review of Jon Hassler’s new novel, “Rookery Blues” (Tempo, Sept. 5), John Brumfield refers to the “sloppiness” in the musical references and demonstrates this sloppiness by correcting the ...