Music Online

The issue of the means through which it can be allowed for music online to exist, and the legality and commercial nature of these programs, has proven to be highly contentious in the era of the widespread availability of online services. The music industry has long based its business model on technology which was difficult [...]

New and Current Music

In the digital age the means through which music fans and casual enthusiasts can be apprised of ongoing developments in the current music scene have greatly increased in availability and ease of use, with new artists and record labels ascending quickly into the forefront of new music in large part due to the quick methods [...]

Musical Notes

Though the notion of music notes may seem like an integral, necessary part of any system for creating and performing music, it is less intuitive than the casual, non musically inclined listener might suppose, being more a part of the history of how the modern world has quantified and systematized various aspects of native human [...]

Free Music Downloads

Like most of the other segments of the commercial media landscape, the record industry based its financial model for most of the 20th century on the hierarchical nature of its system for allowing access to products. Vinyl-based technology, in particular, facilitated the ability of the record industry to restrict its products from being freely reproduced [...]

Types of Music

Though in a certain sense music might be thought of as one of the purely entertainment-providing forms of art, essentially direct and sensory in its appeal to listeners, as opposed to an artwork with essential visual or narrative elements, the way in which music is understood and quantified by formal systems of academic analysis and [...]