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 ...

If you throw a rock in a home improvement store you'll hit at least two dozen different home lighting solutions. There's smart bulbs and dumb bulbs, island lights and track lighting, and so many sizes ...

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 ...

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 ...

Last year Nanoleaf unveiled Aurora – a stunning lighting array made of modular, energy-efficient LED panels. They’re continuing to develop the system, and they just unveiled the Rhythm – a new module ...

Wireless MIDI speaker and light-guided keyboards let groups play real songs together in minutes without lessons Music shouldn’t start with homework. It should start with a party. Almost everybody ...

Nanoleaf, the company behind the HomeKit-enabled Aurora smart modular lighting system, recently introduced a $49 accessory that allows the Aurora lights to respond to music, adding a whole new ...

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 ...

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 ...