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Researchers Travel to the Amazon to Find Out if Musical Taste is Hardwired
Members of the Tsimane tribe showed no preference between consonant and dissonate tones, meaning Western music is probably not biologically based
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Here’s What Happens When Neuroscientists and Designers Team Up to Explain Scientific Research
A new interdisciplinary project results in a moving sculpture, an animated piece, a song that evolves and more
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Photographer Captures the Enduring Grandeur of the Steinway Piano Factory
Christopher Payne’s new book strikes a chord
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“Armenian Public Radio” Brings Nirvana Attitude to the Folklife Festival
An Armenian-American trio performs traditional folk songs with a modern American sensibility
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Steven Spielberg on Why He Made The BFG
The director talks about the new adaptation, the cast and having John Williams compose the score of the film
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What Happens in the Brain When Music Causes Chills?
The brains of people who get chills when the right song comes on are wired differently than others
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The Hills Are Alive With the Sound of Bollywood
Learn the history of Mumbai’s iconic “cut-to” Switzerland shot
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For Rolling Stones Fans, This Book Is a Dream Come True
Journalist and author Rich Cohen first covered the Stones on tour in the 90s. Now he revisits that trip and the band’s epic history
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‘Hamilton’ Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda Joins the War Against Bots
Ticket-buying bots are snatching up seats and jacking up the price of concert and theater tickets
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Inside the Effort to Digitize Medieval Monks’ Chants
Scanning and interpreting centuries-old manuscripts is a challenge because musical notation wasn’t formalized yet
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Tune Into the Smashing Sounds of Large Hadron Collider Data in Real Time
Grooves made by groundbreaking physics
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To Really Appreciate Louis Armstrong’s Trumpet, You Gotta Play it. Just Ask Wynton Marsalis
It’s not always the white-glove treatment; some artifacts live on through performance
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Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble Celebrates Our Differences Through Song
“Sing Me Home” is a multicultural feast for the ears
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‘The Shining’ Looks to Raise Hairs and Octaves in Its Opera Debut
The Minnesota Opera will debut its take on the horror novel in a new production by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Paul Moravec
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Break Free in Freddie Mercury’s Montreux
Visit the Swiss town where Queen’s frontman recorded some of his greatest hits
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The Swiss tradition is much more than a simple yodel-ay-ee-oooo
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‘Lost’ Medieval Music Performed for the First Time in 1,000 Years
Researchers and musicians at Cambridge reconstruct songs from ‘The Consolation of Philosophy’
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