Many musicians with a degree in music performance share their knowledge through private teaching. Unlike our colleagues with music education degrees, we do not study learning disabilities or the signs ...

New research explores music's impact on learning, memory, and emotions in two studies. One reveals that familiar music can enhance concentration and learning, while the other demonstrates that music ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research from the University of Sheffield and Western Sydney University. The study, ...

Public music education, a critical component of aesthetic eduction, plays an indispensable role in cultivating holistic human development and enhancing cultural literacy among university students ...

A particularly important feature of music is that its structure often involves patterns that allow listeners to form expectations, based on statistical learning, which may subsequently be fulfilled or ...

When Amy Richter was a little girl, her father often traveled for work. He often came home bearing gifts of music and record albums. They bonded while poring over all that vinyl, she recalls, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How have you incorporated music in nonmusic classes? Many of our students are entranced by music, and it’s a big part of their lives. How many of us teachers, however, ...

With the opening of the new Linde Center for Music and Learning, a climate-controlled complex that can be comfortably used year-round, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home at Tanglewood is no ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. When Amy Richter was a little girl, ...

“Music is the medicine of the mind.” That is what American soldier and politician John A. Logan (1826–1886) once said. I kind of agree with it. Being a classically trained mezzosoprano, I know from ...