How music is the real language of political diplomacy. gu.com/p/4cyqv/stw Forget guns and bombs, it is the power of melody that has changed the world.

Music is vanishing from British universities – and that's a disaster telegraph.co.uk/music/classica…

How John Berger, the Marxist philosopher and art critic, changed our way of seeing art bit.ly/2hVNpOo x.com/themusicalbrai…

Capturing and measuring the richness of feeling in response to music fron.tiers.in/go/TmKnMF

Iraqi cellist's message for unity in the age of Trump dailyprogress.com/news/politics/… 🎵🎶youtu.be/3tyDtGAGoqI

Classical music: Responding to catastrophe with culture econ.st/29USNPA Mahler 8 youtu.be/NSYEOLwVfU8

Twentieth-century music: Music, war and politics intertwined econ.st/JxnCHv

Nightingales as unwitting muse theguardian.com/music/musicblo… Stravinsky's Chant du Rossignol youtu.be/NDvttESHowE

How mathematics relates to music post.cr/2rQN8mc patterns in music & mathematics irishtimes.com/news/science/t… 🎹 youtu.be/aGQ4Gqtr0KY

Scientists figured out why pop music sounds all the same! mic.com/articles/10789… (research paper) journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Reports of a new Hatto slippedisc.com/2017/05/report… Notes on a scandal telegraph.co.uk/culture/366919… Role of Mazurka project musicalpointers.co.uk/articles/gener…

The magical mathematics of music plus.maths.org/content/magica…

how Britten remained an avowed pacifist throughout the WW2 warrequiem.org his War Requiem youtu.be/khDzNCS2qP4

news from Digital Musicology: Beyond the Score blog.frontiersin.org/2017/07/26/bey… Symposium schedule in London digitalmusicology.com

Nicholas Cook's lectures on between art and science youtu.be/DTXyxdeTAnM on Music, identity, and race youtu.be/T2euX6nh7B8

recent postings on "Blurred lines of holy minimalism" empmusicology.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/blu… on "Lifting the [protecting] veil" empmusicology.wordpress.com/2017/07/28/lif…

how audio analysis is used youtu.be/-03BthBUI24 in the experiments by London vegetable orchestra on refrigerators

Minimalism won the battle for stylistic supremacy in the 20th and 21st centuries but... gu.com/p/33t7g/stw

check out some of recent postings on musical diplomacy blog musdiplomacy.wordpress.com

musical modernism map qgiscloud.com/bheile/Twelve_… by @BjornHeile