“Without music life would be a mistake.” Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche.
Music is such a pervasive and widespread feature of our cultural life it ought to play a significant role in schools and communities – or at least given as much attention as sport in the education curriculum. By Silvia Dropulich

New research at the University of Melbourne using free radicals to prevent micro-organism damage of historical items is helping to bring art out of the shadows and into view. By Katherine Smith

New software called MelodicMatch, designed for people who “make a living by understanding how music is put together” is enabling researchers to formulate and identify musical patterns, and the relationships between them. By Katherine Smith