Have you ever wondered why it's easier to remember music you heard decades ago compared to what you had for breakfast last week? "Music is remarkably resistant to forgetting," says Steffen Herff, ...

If the walls of the Sacajawea Middle School band room could talk, they’d likely whisper about the many students who found a lifelong love of music and education within its confines. Those walls will ...

Music has a remarkable ability to evoke powerful memories and emotions. When we listen to a piece of music from years ago, we seem to travel back to that moment. Music can act as a direct line to our ...

Gao Hong, a master of the pear-shaped lute, the pipa, began her career as a professional musician at age 12. She graduated from China’s premier music school, the Central Conservatory of Music in ...

New research from UC Santa Cruz is finally giving you the go-ahead to sing in the shower as loud as you want. Because, as it turns out, you probably sound pretty darn good. Psychologists wanted to ...

The ability to remember and recognize a musical theme does not seem to be affected by age, unlike many other forms of memory. “You’ll hear anecdotes all the time of how people with severe Alzheimer’s ...

“Alexa, play 90s rock” is a sentence that comes out of my mouth almost daily. My husband (who happens to be a musician) tells me day after day that there is a ton of new music out there that he’s sure ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music could alter the emotional tenor of your memories. CoffeeAndMilk/E+ via Getty Images Have you ever noticed how a particular ...

At least once a week, and usually more often than that, Eugene chorister Amy Adams sings for a special audience. Some listen from sofas. Others recline in wheelchairs. A few dance up and down the ...

Anton Nel, a Johannesburg native, debuted at the age of twelve with Beethoven’s C Major Concerto and captured first prizes in all the major South African competitions. While still in his teens, he ...