Your music preferences are built from the songs you listened to when you were young, the unique vibrations of your skull and even how your brain waves groove along. All this helps determine when and ...

Happy music and sad sounds are not universal. Writing about music has been compared to dancing about architecture, but bear with us. Santa Maria is a village in western Bolivia without running water ...

A new theory suggests a natural basis for our preference for musical consonance. But does such a preference exist at all, wonders Philip Ball. What was avant-garde yesterday is often blandly ...

This piece originally appeared on Pacific Standard. Score another one for Wolfgang Amadeus. Researchers report the soothing sounds of a Mozart minuet boosts the ability of children and seniors to ...

MONKEYS do not prefer sounds that are harmonious to human ears, suggesting that people have a unique appreciation of music. People find certain pairs of notes more harmonious than others. Pleasing ...

Utah-based trumpeter Dan Jonas says The Spirituality Suite was written as a response to his own struggles with spirituality in the twenty-first century. The music is thus largely conceptual, or as ...