Some of the greatest hits in music history came together in a flash of inspiration — proof that genius doesn’t always need time. Some songs take months of studio perfectionism to get right, while ...

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During their early years, The Beatles were used to being that efficient in recording sessions. Please Please Me, their debut LP, was famously recorded in a single day in March of 1963. It took less ...

The avant-garde works that emerged from World War II continue to influence how audiences view contemporary music decades ...

"To take Germany prior to 1600 as an example, organ pitch there is thought to have varied from a high of A=567 Hz for the first simple pipe organs of the Middle Ages to a low of A=377 Hz for the early ...