Singer, songwriter, and producer Hosono Haruomi has been breaking new musical ground for more than half a century. Writer Monma Yūsuke explores the essence of his approach to music, from his ...

Perspectives of New Music is an international professional journal. It is an independent journal, incorporated as a 501c3 not-for-profit corporation, published continuously since 1962. We publish two, ...

A side-glance at the construction of a drama will help to illustrate and interpret this phenomenon. The drama, too, unfolds itself through the medium of time, and uses the mechanism of logical and ...

Music is a concept that almost defies definition yet is regarded as a cultural universal. At its most basic, music is an art form made by combining sounds – vocals or instrumental – to express emotion ...