Music

Music is the one subject almost everybody has an opinion about and very few people have studied. This category sits in the gap: the instruments and how they are grouped, the composers whose names outlived their centuries, the vocabulary that turns up on every sheet of music and is rarely explained. It runs from orchestras to the blues to the bands your parents argued about. The explanations aim to make the theory feel less like homework, because most musical terms are simply plain instructions written in Italian. No ability to read music required, and nothing here needs an instrument.