A recent study published in Psychological Science provides evidence that people naturally absorb the underlying rules of music just by listening to it over their lifetime. The findings suggest that ...

Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Apr., 2009), pp. 16-25 (10 pages) Attention to subtle changes in music, whether inadvertent or purposeful, occupies a great deal of practice and ...

The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

Of all the changes technology has wrought to my listening habits and way of experiencing music, the biggest impact has come from the way my iPod destroys context. The most obvious benefit of the iPod ...

Apple Music is expanding its AI-driven playlist capabilities, combining algorithmic precision with human editorial guidance to create more personalized listening experiences. New tools like Playlist ...

“Rumors about the impending exit have swirled for months, reaching a crescendo in recent days.” – Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2013. Awhile back I commented on music critic Scott ...

Context presents music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, embodying the new trends in music as Romanticism began to fade. Arnold Schoenberg, self-portrait, 1908. On this latest ...

The present experiment was designed to localize the neural substrates that process music-syntactic incongruities, using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Electrically, such processing has been proposed to ...