Music

 
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Symphony no 9, d minor, op. 125

In the News . . .

• The doctor will serenade you now: surgery prescribes tunes as tonics Neuroscientists -- The Guardian (02 November 2019)
  
  
• ‘A Cowboy Has to Sing’: Scenes From a Chuck Wagon Jamboree -- The New York Times (13 September 2019)
  
  
• 'We fell like cosmic rain': how the Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices became global stars -- The Guardian (06 June 2019)
  
  
• Canada: one Indigenous group accuses other of cultural appropriation in award row -- The Guardian (09 April 2019)
  
  
• Hip-hop restaurants: Australia's popular yet polarising food trend -- The Guardian (18 September 2018)
  
  
• Music makes curries taste 10pc spicier, scientists find -- The Telegraph (12 March 2017)
  
  
• Why happy music makes you do bad things -- BBCfuture (14 February 2017)
  
  
• Andrew Lloyd Webber challenges arts cuts -- BBCNews (08 September 2016)
  
  
• Still Don’t Know Why Music Sounds Good -- Wired (13 July 2016)
  
  
• Your Culture—Not Your Biology—Shapes Your Musical Taste -- Science (13 July 2016)
  
  
• How Castration and Opera Changed The Skeleton of 19th Century Singer Pacchierotti -- Forbes (28 June 2016)
  
  
• Male Gorillas Often Sing, Hum While Eating -- Discovery News (24 February 2016)
  
  
• Do speakers of different languages hear music differently? -- ScienceDaily (24 February 2016)
  
  
• What's the Point of Music? Ask Peter Gabriel -- Guardian (10 February 2016)
  
  
• New Ways Into the Brain’s ‘Music Room’ -- New York Times (08 February 2016)
  • Lending Her Ears to an M.I.T. Experiment -- New York Times (08 February 2016)
    
    
• Difficult Grammar Affects Music Experience -- ScienceDaily (03 February 2016)
  
  
• How music, language shape the brain -- ScienceDaily (14 December 2015)
  
  
• Brain Rhythms Sync to Musical Beat -- Scientific American (10 November 2015)
  
  
• Chopin, Bach Used Human Speech ‘Cues’ to Express Emotion in Music -- ScienceDaily (02 November 2015)
  
  
• Singing Calms Baby Longer Than Talking -- ScienceDaily (28 October 2015)
  
  
• Universal Rhythm: People Dance to Same Beat Across the Globe -- LiveScience (30 June 2015)
  
  
• Cultic Seal May Show Oldest Depiction of Music and Revelry in Israel -- LiveScience (28 May 2015)
  
  
• Play It Again, Sam: How the Brain Recognizes Familiar Music -- EurekAlert (12 March 2014)
  
  
• The Genes That Mean You Have a Good Ear for Music -- New Scientist (12 March 2014)
  
  
• 9000 Year Old Music and Alcohol – A Powerful Mix -- Past Horizons (03 December 2013)
  
  
• Brain's music pleasure zone identified -- Guardian (11 April 2013)
  
  
• Across Cultures, Music Therapy Promotes Sounder Sleep -- Pacific Standard (11 April 2013)
  

• 3,000-Year-Old Trumpet Played Again -- DiscoveryNews (22 November 2010)
  
  
• The AMG All Music Guide
  
  
• Babies Are Born to Dance -- LiveScience (15 March 2010)
  
  
• Ben Gray Lumpkin Digital Folk Music Collection -- University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries
  
  
• Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project -- University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries
  
  
• Digital Mozart Museum -- International Mozarteum Foundation
  
  
• Digital Scores: Loeb Music Library -- Harvard
  
  
• Downbeat.com
  
  
• Ethnomusicology Musical Instrument Collection -- University of Washington
  
  
• Exploring the Evolution of Musical Instruments -- LiveScience (18 October 2012)
  
  
• The James Koetting Ghana Field Recording Collection -- Brown University Library Center for Digital Initiatives
  
  
• The Jean Thomas Collection -- University of Louisville Libraries
  
  
• Louisiana State Museum Jazz Collection
  
  
• More on Stone Age flutes found in Germany -- Bruce Bower, Science News (18 July 2009)
  
  
• Musical Aptitude Relates to Reading Ability -- EurekAlert (16 October 2011)
  
  
• Musicians Local No. 627 and the Mutual Musicians Foundation: The Cradle of Kansas City Jazz -- University of Missouri – Kansas City
  
  
• Music To Your Ears? -- DiscoveryNews (20 May 2010)
  
  
• Musipedia
  
  
• Top 100 Stories of 2009 #51: Oldest Musical Instrument Found -- Discover (03 January 2009)
  
  
• Orang-utans fashion only known animal instrument -- New Scientist (05 August 2009)
  
  
• Sing Out! [. . . seeks to "preserve and support the cultural diversity and heritage of all traditional and contemporary folk musics, and to encourage making folk music a part of our everyday lives."]
  
  
• Sound Junction
  
  
• Teoria: Music Theory Web -- Jose Rodriguez Alvira

Letizia Colajanni and Cosimo Vassallo as Gilda and Duke of Mantua in UMD's 2006 Sieur Du Luth Arts Festival performance of Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto

Enrico Caruso sings
La donna è mobile (1908)
La donna è mobile
— play in browser (beta)
-- Wikipedia

Photo by Patti L. Tolo