Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings ...

From lullabies to first dances, shared music shapes attachment, lowers stress, and strengthens emotional bonds across a ...

Rediscovering long forgotten music does not mean recovering how it was meant to be performed, and that is a major challenge for the arts, finds a new study from the University of Surrey. An expert has ...

People with musical anhedonia, a rare inability to enjoy music, are teaching scientists how the brain processes songs. In February, a pop-up science column, Annals of Inquiry, is appearing in place of ...

Earlier in my dance journey, it felt like dance was an oasis, free from the fragmentedness, chaos and violence of the world we live in. But increasingly, I see that all of it exists and there is space ...

Luc Besson's new Dracula movie, starring Caleb Landy Jones and Christoph Waltz, makes some significant (and at times odd) ...

Taylor Swift has regained control of her music catalog six years after a controversy surrounding her masters and retired music manager Scooter Braun. Braun, a high-profile industry veteran who has ...

Abstract: The theme and variation music form is a hierarchical structure in music. It has a theme segment at the beginning, followed by a series of variation segments imitating the theme segment.

In Part 2, Indian classical music theory comes alive as the 22 shrutis are clearly demonstrated and explained by Dr. Oke and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, offering rare insight into microtones, pitch perception ...

Listening to music after the age of 70 appears to be associated with a meaningful reduction in dementia risk. A research team from Monash University analyzed data from more than 10,800 older adults ...