While the passage of Public Law 94-142 has increased the mainstreaming of exceptional children in general music classes, little research has been conducted to determine if these children learn music ...

The New York–based program studies how structured musical elements may assist student understanding of math concepts. Structured rhythm can provide a framework that helps students organize and ...

We examined music education majors' ability to reproduce rhythmic stimuli presented in melody and rhythm only conditions. Participants reproduced rhythms of two-measure music examples by immediately ...

A sense of rhythm is a uniquely human characteristic. Music cognition scientists discovered that the sense of rhythm – also known as the beat – is so fundamental to humans that we recognize patterns ...

Scientists are finding more evidence that birdsong parallels human-made music. Credit...Fiona Carswell Supported by By Marlowe Starling When a bird sings, you may think you’re hearing music. But are ...

In search of an original voice, the dominant composers of the mid-twentieth century — Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez and their disciples — rejected the tonal and rhythmic forms of the past. They ...

My awakening came in a small nursing home in East New York more than 20 years ago. Strange sounds and the cadences of repetitive speech filled the dementia day unit. In the noisy chaos, some residents ...