Science Alert looks at some pretty interesting findings from Anglia Ruskin University researchers on the effects music can have on human physiology… especially in the brain, and… Read the rest “Music can be medicine – especially for dementia.”
NPR has a piece on a USF anthro prof’s idea to make her sort of depressing research more palatable in a way of which this guild heartily approves – by turning data on public reactions… Read the rest “Algae bloom data, set to music.”
PLoS ONE presents research on music and words, showing that, no matter what language you use, speaking an emotion uses the same sounds as playing an emotion:
… Read the rest “Language is the music of emotion.”In Western music, the major mode
Slate has a great piece on why the piano we hear now ain’t the instrument great composers wrote on – and how that changes the best known tunes in history:
… Read the rest “Beethoven isn’t Beethoven any more.”But music from the 18th
OK, not monkeys, but apes, New Scientist says, have been caught making musical instruments:
… Read the rest “Monkey music.”The orang-utan’s music, if you can call it that, is actually an alarm call known as a “kiss
About two months ago, the BBC tells us, Scottish researchers used computer models to bring a lost medieval instrument back to life:
… Read the rest “Listen to the lituus.”Bach’s motet (a choral musical composition) “O
The New York Times reports on a German discovery – or, really, a whole set of discoveries – of Stone Age tools, sculptures and the oldest known flutes:
… Read the rest “Cave man boogie.”Dr. Conard, a professor
Scientific American casts a cold eye on music makers, and clinically reveals that yes, music really matters:
… Read the rest “Music boosts brains.”To record brain stem responses, the researchers placed electrodes on the heads
CNN recently covered some fun physiological research from the University of Maryland that showed that music – music you like – really is good for your heart:
… Read the rest “Music opens your heart. No, really.”Miller thought,
Scientific American presents a scathing indictment of my forebears as it reveals a link between genetics and musicality:
… Read the rest “Music’s in the genes.”In what the researchers called the first study of its kind, they
Wired takes a musical trip to ancient Mexico, with the help of an engineer who has recreated the sounds of the Aztecs and Mayans and their whistles of death and healing:
… Read the rest “Whistles of death and healing.”Noisemakers made of
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