Inside every music box is a steel comb with tuned teeth (or lamellae) that make a single note when plucked. On some music boxes, a rotating cylinder covered in pins plucks the teeth, creating a tune.

Neuroscientists are closing in on a striking idea: some brain cells appear to be tuned specifically to music, firing in ...

Infants, who listened to a waltz, had enhanced neural activity in tests. — -- For growing babies, playing a waltz may help strengthen their ability to perceive speech and music, according to a ...

Women of the Hammer tribe from the village of Turmi, situated in southern Ethiopia near the Kenyan border, dance and make music as part of a ritual. From love songs to dance tunes to lullabies, music ...

Would Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance or Debussy's Clair de Lune have sounded the same if the composers had been born in different countries? Probably not, according to researchers who have found that ...