Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Eva Amsen writes about the overlap of science and art Sep 03, 2025, 10:29am EDT Music, what can’t it do? Listening to music ...

In most households, there’s a familiar scene, a child tapping a pencil on the desk, humming while solving math, or scribbling cartoons during a break from homework. For years, these small habits were ...

A music notation is an almost impossibly complicated bit of drawing. Calling it a map or a diagram does not quite do the trick. Its lines encode mechanisms for the planning, composition, analysis, ...