On Reel Music, we explore orchestral themes from cinema’s most memorable films. This week, we focus on the music that defined Alfred Hitchcock’s cinematic world. With Hitchcock, a few notes are all it ...

Long before movies gave us the cliffhanger, Scheherazade mastered the art of leaving her audience wanting more. Her life depended on keeping a powerful sultan listening night after night. So every ...

Jazz and Western classical music are now more like pop and rock — at least by one measure. The melodic and harmonic structures of jazz and classical have become simpler over time, according to a ...