Music

John Nicholson obituary

Other lives: Director of music at Gordonstoun school who also created the Schubertline website

Sophie McCook

21, May, 2023 @4:35 PM

Piano fever sweeps UK as online lessons and street instruments fuel take-up

Outdoor pianos, celebrity names and free tuition videos combine to get Britons tickling the ivories once more

Miranda Bryant

30, Apr, 2023 @6:00 AM

Andrew Downes obituary

Other lives: Pioneering composer and original voice in British music and mentor to generations of young musicians

Duncan Honeybourne

19, Jan, 2023 @7:54 PM

Val Glynn obituary

Other lives: Guitar teacher whose simple approach to song-accompaniment brought the joy of music-making to many

Paul Glynn

22, Dec, 2022 @8:50 PM

Tim Briggs obituary

Other lives: Librarian and music teacher with a love of performing, from theatre to chamber choirs

Jonathan Briggs

18, Sep, 2022 @6:51 PM

Playing music in childhood linked to a sharper mind in old age, study suggests

Researchers find link between learning instrument while young and improved thinking skills later in life

Guardian staff and agency

29, Aug, 2022 @5:00 AM

Finley Scholefield obituary

Other lives: Musician and creative producer of games and apps

Sarah Scholefield

28, Apr, 2022 @3:56 PM

‘He would get high before teaching’: how Mills College gave birth to music’s boldest minds

Fuelled by psychedelic counterculture, the Californian university has nurtured Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson and more – and caused riots at its concerts. But can it survive?

Robert Barry

20, Apr, 2022 @11:54 AM

Chinese virtuoso Lang Lang to set up ‘piano labs’ in UK schools

Exclusive: Plan follows schemes in US and China that have given 180,000 disadvantaged children access to keyboards

Dalya Alberge

18, Apr, 2022 @10:32 AM

Readers reply: why do major and minor chords in music affect us the way they do?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

06, Mar, 2022 @2:00 PM

Scientific proof that being wrong is right

Brief letters: Charlatans and scientists | The PM and the police | San Serriffe | CBeebies | Recorders

13, Feb, 2022 @6:34 PM

Lloyd Webber calls for more music tuition funding in schools

Exclusive: Composer says ministers seem unwilling to recognise benefits music can have in disadvantaged communities