Houston Public Media’s Catherine Lu chats with Artistic Director and Pianist, Brian Connelly, about Context’s next chamber-music concert, which features a pair of piano trios by classical music’s ...

Music perception requires integrating individual notes into their broader musical context, yet how musical expertise shapes the neural encoding of this information across the auditory hierarchy ...

Can music be propaganda? Torture? How about a tool of manipulation, disorientation, and oppression? “Shift: Music, Meaning, Context” contemplates how music changes in form and interpretation as it ...

Creating social bonds is essential for our health and well-being. In a new study conducted at Center for Music in the Brain at Aarhus University, Denmark, postdoctoral researcher Jan Stupacher and ...

In music, the perception of pitch is governed largely by its tonal function given the preceding harmonic structure of the music. While behavioral research has advanced our understanding of the ...

Three of the artists associated with the Context chamber-music series perform movements from Mozart’s ground-breaking Divertimento-Trio in E-Flat as they preview the all-Mozart recital Context is ...

The TEAMS Medieval Music in Context series seeks to publish editions, translations, and studies of medieval music-theoretical treatises and literary texts with significant musical engagements, ...

The Context chamber music series opens its 17th season at Rice University's Duncan Recital Hall on Sunday. And for the occasion, artistic director Brian Connelly has put together a modern all-American ...

Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context. But when it comes to ...