The Screaming Marmots aren't a rock band, but shrieks of the large rodents are telling scientists something about the animal nature of some music. Daniel Blumstein, a biologist at the University of ...

What is it about Jimi Hendrix that so many people find appealing? According to scientists at UCLA, it’s all in the music – or rather, the dissonance in that music: the unexpected, jarring, almost ...

There's no accounting for taste—but if you want to blame anything on how you were raised, your taste in music could rank up there, a new study suggests. In music, chords can be broken down into many ...

Ever wonder why Jimi Hendrix's rendition of "The Star-Spangled Banner" moved so many people in 1969 or why the music in the shower scene of "Psycho" still sends chills down your spine? A UCLA-based ...

Music displays all the harmony and discord the auditory world has to offer. The perfect pair of notes at the end of the Kyrie in Mozart’s Requiem fills churches and concert halls with a single chord ...

Take a second and think of your favorite song. Is it James Blunt's "You're beautiful"? Or maybe Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours"? Whatever tune you're thinking of, if it's a pop hit released in the past 40 ...

Discover the Grammy-winning conductor, pianist and composer. A National Medal of Arts recipient and longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, he helped set the standard that an American ...

HOLLYWOOD — Thank God for Steve and Eydie. They’re one reassuring element in what has become the most unsettled corner of the entertainment cosmos — the music biz. Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme seem ...

The fundamental cognitive functions of music in the brain have not been known and evolutionary reasons for musical abilities seem mysterious. A recent hypothesis suggested that a fundamental function ...