The seemingly trivial ability to hear a regular pulse in music is a remarkable—and perhaps distinctively human—feature of the ...

The origins of music remain murky. Did it evolve due to its ability to forge a group of people into a cohesive group? Were the first songs lullabies? Or, as romantics would have it, was it simply a ...

There are plenty of musical families, and research has suggested that musical abilities have a genetic component. Now a study has tested the musical abilities of infants who are too young to have been ...

New research published in JNeurosci reports features of the brain in musicians with absolute, or perfect, pitch (AP) that likely enable individuals with this rare ability—shared by Mozart, Bach, and ...

Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal ...

Does our ability to enjoy music have a biological basis? A genetic twin study shows that music enjoyment is partly heritable. Scientists uncovered genetic factors that influence the degree of music ...

J. S. Bach’s father and uncles were accomplished musicians, Charlie Parker’s old man played piano on the vaudeville circuit, Paul McCartney’s pop blew the trumpet in a band, and Prince got his name ...

In this piece we explore the role of confidence in musical performance, some misconceptions surrounding it, the science of confidence, and look at how an artist can cultivate more of it before ...

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New research published in JNeurosci reports features of the brain in musicians with absolute, or perfect, pitch (AP) that likely enable individuals with this rare ability -- shared by Mozart, Bach, ...