In his book "Musicophilia," renowned neuroscientist Oliver Sacks described the remarkable ability of Sir Frederick Ouseley, a former music professor at the University of Oxford, to recognize the ...

What is pitch? There are lots of sounds all around us. We use different words to help describe these sounds. In music, pitch is the word we use to describe how high or low a sound is. The squeak ...

As researchers continue working to unpack the mechanisms behind musical memory, Evans says he hopes the current findings will also help more people have the confidence to participate in music. He ...

The great joy of Here in the Pitch is getting familiar with this mysterious song that Pratt knows so well. There are nine of them here that amount to less than half an hour of music—notable not ...

The simplification of melody is not a new worry for some musicologists. “The place of melody as one of music’s basic building blocks is being reduced substantially,” the composer Yuval Shrem ...