Rhythm plays an important role in how we perceive and connect with the world around us, even playing a role in our social lives and health. My husband reads to me every night before we go to sleep. We ...

Minimalist music is created from short musical patterns. The patterns are repeated, layered and changed to make them interesting. It started in San Francisco in the 1960s. Famous minimalist composers ...

Studies in neuroscience show that when a person listens to a beat, the brain’s motor and auditory regions activate ...

Music is intimately associated with experiences of emotions. Rhythmic entrainment is a possible mechanism of emotion that can be evoked by music. Rhythmic entrainment also binds individuals together ...

A rhythm is a pattern of long and short sounds. Rhythm is all around us in the cackle of kookaburras, the breaking of ocean waves, and the patterns of our own speech. This is the first in a series of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper introduces a new approach for the historical study of musical rhythm based on an empirical measure of rhythm known as the nPVI ...

Rather than displaying his extraordinary technical ability at every opportunity, young Norwegian saxophonist Marius Neset has shown admirable restraint, releasing a series of recordings on the ACT ...

If there is ever a Reggae Hall of Fame, Hiroko Okuda at Casio Computer Co. would be a fitting nominee for a monumental contribution she unknowingly made to the popular Jamaican musical genre. Casio ...