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A piece of music composed by Beethoven in 1799 and lost for over 200 years has been painstakingly reconstructed by a Professor of Music at The University of Manchester.

Her song cycle One Life Stand , with words by poet Sophie Hannah is a response to Robert Schumann's 1840 song cycle Frauenliebe und Leben (A Woman's Life and Loves) .

The winners of the 2011 Grammy Award for chamber music number among the top performers scheduled to appear over the coming year at UCLA's William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

For centuries historians have believed that the spark that led to the popular Scottish uprising against Edward I in 1297 was William Wallace's killing of the English Sheriff of Lanark, William Hesilrig.

Art is in your hands at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery on Saturday 10 September, 1-4pm, in a workshop led by Louise Atkinson.

Academics collaborate with artists to explore archive and exile An exhibition marking the culmination of a two year interdisciplinary project between academics at the University of Sheffield and artists will open to the public on Wednesday July 6 2011 at Bank Street Arts in Sheffield.

Want happier, more productive workers? Turn the music on Listening to music at work can help office workers relax, improve their mood and make them feel happier, according to research from the University of Sheffield's Department of Music. Anneli Haake´s study, which was recently published in the journal Musicae Scientiae, surveyed 300 people and found that music could fulfil a range of important functions for employees, including providing relief from stress and improving concentration.

Media Note: High-res photos of "Life is Struggle" can be accessed at http://art.umn.edu/press.

Online Arts Journal the Manchester Review is this afternoon publishing an exclusive extract from Jennifer Egan's award-winning novel 'A Visit from the Goon Squad'.

What would happen if you crossed music and neurobiology? If you could listen in on how the brain hears music? If you removed the borders between art and science so that the interaction changed both f

Sundance premiere for film inspired by Mass-Obs archive A unique film made by two Hollywood directors and inspired by the Mass Observation Archive at the University of Sussex is to get its world premiere at the famous Sundance Film Festival in Utah, USA this month.

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Kettle's Yard this month launches a new music series curated by composer Stephen Montague which runs until May.

The University of Oxford is today releasing some sample Oxford questions - direct from the tutors who conduct the's - to provoke thought and help explain the reasoning behind even the most strange-sounding questions.

An early work by composer Ralph Vaughan Williams - born 138 years ago today - is to be performed for the first time after being spotted in an exhibition at Cambridge University Library.

A cross-European project has found that the use of computer music technologies can motivate young people who might otherwise leave school without the basic skills to gain employment.

In 2010, graffiti is widely seen as an eyesore and an act of vandalism, holding for many distinctly negative connotations.