An old tradition has a voice in the Arkansas Ozarks, where Sacred Harp, a hymnal for shape-note singing that has become known as a style all its own, has ...

Understanding airport pictograms can have you navigating the terminal like a seasoned jet-setter rather than a dazed and confused tourist.

Notation doesn’t just open the way to the creation of unbounded musical universes; it also enables astonishing forms of human communication.

Ada Lovelace, known as the first computer programmer, was born on Dec. 10, 1815, more than a century before digital ...

Problem to be solved The Symbols section of the Master Palette contains several symbols used for handbell notation, but they basically work as text characters; there's no way to intelligently attach ...

An accomplished singer and pianist, Lovelace was familiar with musical notation symbols representing aspects of musical performance, such as pitch and duration, and she had manipulated logical ...

An accomplished singer and pianist, Lovelace was familiar with musical notation symbols representing aspects of musical performance, such as pitch and duration, and she had manipulated logical symbols ...