Professor Paul Colombo has studied music-based mentoring, memory, and the benefits of music training over the course of his career at Tulane University. Here's what he found.

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Noise first became a public health issue in interwar Britain – called the ‘age of noise’ by dystopian author Aldous Huxley.

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Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.

A baby's babbling may sound like nonsense, but it's actually an extended act of trial-and-error learning. As babies produce ...

Noord Nederlands Orkest and Cappella Amsterdam breathe colour and light into work from the composer’s most austere period In his later years, Igor Stravinsky became fascinated by serialism, both as a ...

I really don’t feel that it’s all necessary anymore,” Morton Feldman told an interviewer in 1972. “And so what I try to bring ...