Music

Both expertise and the ability to release one’s focus can help people enter a state of effortless attention

Across the globe, singing traditions are vast and varied. Their commonalities may help explain how music evolved

An assessment of hundreds of thousands of songs confirms that choruses and hooks have taken over—but simpler isn’t necessarily worse

Physicists found that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach contains mathematical patterns that help convey information

If holiday music seems designed in a lab to get stuck on repeat inside your head for all of December, well, it kind of is

Birds might sing in the morning because they need a vocal workout

A mathematician and a musician collaborated to turn a quantum research paper into a jazz performance

Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.

The British band the Sound of Science elevates edutainment on its debut

Indris’ dramatic family “songs” show repeatable timing patterns

It's Friday. We deserve to have some fun, right? Let's have some music!

Quadcopters appear to be a relatively benign tool to study the behavior and numbers of wetland birds. Christopher Intagliata reports