Like an actor's script, a sheet of music instructs a musician on what to play (the pitch) and when to play it (the rhythm). Sheet music may look complicated,...

You’re probably listening to music in your headphones at work right now. Whether you are powering through your to-do list or brainstorming creative ideas, here is how the tunes you are playing affect how your brain works.

For the first time, MIT neuroscientists have identified a neural population in the human auditory cortex that responds selectively to sounds that people typically categorize as music, but not to speech or other environmental sounds.

Musik für Werbeclips wird aus Zeitgründen meist nur noch selten komponiert — Werbeagenturen bedienen sich gerne umfangreicher Musik-Pools. Als Filmmusikschaffender kann man sich aber intensiv mit zahlreichen Aspekten der Klangpsychologie beschäftigen und diese in die Komposition bewusst einfließen lassen. Auch beim Songwriting kann man sich mancher psychologischer Tricks bedienen ... Sind die Mechanismen einer Musik,...

Musik, die nicht der Kunst verpflichtet ist, sondern kommerziellen Zielen und Zwecken folgt, bezeichnet man gemeinhin als »Gebrauchsmusik«. So soll uns die Hintergrundmusik im Supermarkt zum Shoppen anregen, der Klangteppich im Aufzug uns die Ängste nehmen und der Schlager während einer Kaffeefahrt die Senioren zum Schunkeln bringen. Was anspruchslos klingt, ist in der Praxis jedoch...

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The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically-matched statements in a neutral North American accent. Speech includes calm, happy, sad, angry, fearful, surprise, and disgust expressions, and song contains calm, happy, sad, angry, and fearful emotions. Each expression is produced at two levels of emotional intensity, with an additional neutral expression. All conditions are available in face-and-voice, face-only, and voice-only formats. The set of 7356 recordings were each...

How many times does the chorus repeat in your favorite song? How many times have you listened to that chorus? Repetition in music isn't just a feature of Western pop songs, either; it's a global phenomenon. Why? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis walks us through the basic principles of the 'exposure effect,' detailing how repetition invites us into music as active participants, rather than passive listeners. [Directed by Andrew Zimbelman, narrated by Addison Anderson, music by Joshua Smoak and Alex Admiral Collier].