"There is very little dispute about the principal constituent elements of music, though experts will differ on the pre…"

"Just as parameters within a culture are distinguished from one another because they are governed by somewhat differen…"

"Melody, harmony, rhythm, dynamics, tessitura, timbre, tempo, meter, texture, and perhaps others"

"Two aspects of each of these parameters should be taken into consideration: the quality of each parameter at any give…"

"Musical research since the late twentieth century has given greater consideration to certain social and embodied aspe…"

"Any element belonging to the total musical fact can be isolated, or taken as a strategic variable of musical production."

"Sound is a minimal condition of the musical fact."

"Writing of her own Igbo music, the Nigerian musicologist Chinyere Nwachukwu maintains that the 'concept of music nkwa…"

"When I tell people I’m a trumpet soloist, there are three kinds of response I usually get: “Wow, what a great job!”, …"

"I believe the emergence and explosion of jazz in the last century is one of the pinnacles of human achievement."