Infants, who listened to a waltz, had enhanced neural activity in tests. — -- For growing babies, playing a waltz may help strengthen their ability to perceive speech and music, according to a ...

Recent data analysis reveals an intriguing shift in holiday music consumption patterns. Music-tracking platform Last.fm has uncovered evidence suggesting that the traditional holiday music season may ...

The unexpected rhythm of macaque monkey skills raise fresh questions about where our own sense of beat comes from.

STORRS, Conn. — Music makes us tap our feet and feel emotions without us consciously deciding to do so. But why? According to fascinating research, it’s not just about your brain predicting what comes ...

Babies may be born with a sense of musical beat, a new study suggests. Jan. 27, 2009— -- All God's children got rhythm -- and at a much earlier age than doctors ever suspected, a small study ...

Lace fragments used to compose scores for LACE, an ongoing project by Zeena Parkins (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Delicate and fine, Shetland lace was made popular in the 19th century ...

NEW YORK — From Mozart to Miles Davis, the harmonies of Western music rewire the brain, creating patterns of neural activity at the confluence of emotion and memory that strengthen with each new ...

Music is the Germans’ favorite art, and their approach to it has never been more aptly put than in the motto once adorning one of their most famous concert halls: “Res severa veruni gaud turn” ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

Last year, MIT researchers announced that they were turning the biochemical properties of proteins into music. Now, they’ve used those musical compositions to create entirely new proteins. Proteins ...