After 150 years, “Simple Gifts” isn’t so simple anymore. The song composed in 1848 by Shaker Elder Joseph Brackett as an easy-to-learn tune for Shaker worship — extolling the virtues of a simple life ...

There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the ’80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the ’70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given ...

When starting to learn a musical instrument, one thing that can put people off is the basic nature of the tunes on hand to get you off the ground. Of course, it makes sense that the simplest music is ...