Bob Dylan, one of the greatest American songwriters, built his career and public persona around mystery. Despite recording dozens of iconic songs, redefining rock music, and winning the Nobel Prize in ...

Misheard lyrics can be a golden moment of serendipity. Often, these mistaken lyrics, or mondegreens, are just words that slip past our attention. Despite their falsehood, these alternative listenings ...

Ann Packer: Songs without Words — Ann Packer's debut novel, "The Dive from Clausen's Pier" was a nationwide bestseller. We talk to the Bay Area-based writer about her new book, "Songs without Words." ...

American music flows from the influence of the Blues. Legendary bluesman Blind Willie Johnson is known for his soulful singing and slide guitar, which Rachel Barton Pine translates to the violin. A ...

The author is a music critic and director of the classical music brand Poongwoldang. Singing is the oldest and most fundamental form of music. It needs no instruments. It does not need to be long. It ...

As she does almost every week at the beginning of her music therapy session, 8-year-old Diana bursts into the music room full of energy. While performing her usual survey of all the instruments ...

To open this hour of music, a simple song. Cellist Andrzej Bauer and pianist Ewa Kupiec play Mendelssohn's "Song without Words," Op. 109.

“Song Without Words (Pleading)”, by Florence Price, is the sixth in a set of “Seven Miniatures” for piano. Reminiscent of Mendelssohn’s own "Songs without Words," this piece opens with a few measures ...

As she does almost every week at the beginning of her music therapy session, 8-year-old Diana bursts into the music room full of energy. While performing her usual survey of all the instruments ...

The author is a music critic and director of the classical music brand Poongwoldang. Singing is the oldest and most fundamental form of music. It needs no instruments. It does not need to be long. It ...