There are plenty of musical families, and research has suggested that musical abilities have a genetic component. Now a study has tested the musical abilities of infants who are too young to have been ...

Amusia is a severe musical disorder affecting both the perception and production of music. It may be either congenital, hereditary tone deafness, or acquired, that is, a condition caused by brain ...

In this piece we explore the role of confidence in musical performance, some misconceptions surrounding it, the science of confidence, and look at how an artist can cultivate more of it before ...

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Your mother tongue may modify your musical ability. Speaking a native language that requires tones appears to boost perception of melody, but at the cost of rhythm, researchers report April 26 in ...

Whether it's singing do-re-mi or strumming a guitar, making music is one of the best ways to stimulate a young mind. Even if children abandon their music lessons when they hit their angsty teen years, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . More than a quarter of musicians with breast cancer experienced difficulties in their musical endeavors after ...

Does our ability to enjoy music have a biological basis? A genetic twin study shows that music enjoyment is partly heritable. Scientists uncovered genetic factors that influence the degree of music ...

Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal ...

Improvising music could help to improve older people's cognitive skills, such as learning and memory, according to research from the University of Sheffield and Western Sydney University.