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What Makes a Musical Genius?
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- Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Books about everything from Tupac Shakur to Latin music and memoirs by Sinead O’Connor and Rickie Lee Jones offer an answer.
Listening to Music Near Bedtime Disruptive to Sleep
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- Tuesday, 22 June 2021
A recent study from Baylor University found that the relationship between music listening and sleep with the involuntary musical imagery, or “earworms,” when a song plays in a person’s mind can affect their sleep patterns.
Faire de la musique ensemble active notre empathie et « nous relie à notre humanité »
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- Monday, 21 June 2021
Une équipe de neuroscientifiques des universités Bar-Ilan et de Chicago a présenté un nouveau modèle cérébral. Il met en lumière cinq mécanismes qui s'activent lorsqu'un groupe de musique joue ensemble.
La música de Mozart tiene un efecto antiepiléptico en el cerebro
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- Monday, 21 June 2021
La música de Mozart tiene un efecto antiepiléptico en el cerebro y puede ser un posible tratamiento para prevenir las crisis epilépticas, según ha demostrado una nueva investigación presentada este viernes en el 7º Congreso de la Academia Europea de Neurología (EAN).
Trailerisation: the movie trend resurrecting old pop music
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- Tuesday, 08 June 2021
Trailers for Eternals, The Suicide Squad, The Batman and more have twisted vintage pop – from Nirvana to Steely Dan – into epic new shapes.
These forged 17th-century music books went undetected for a century
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- Tuesday, 08 June 2021
The Marciana Library acquired the music books—catalogued as MSS 740, 742, and 743—in 1916 and 1917 from a musician and book dealer named Giovanni Concina. But before Tacconi undertook her analysis, the books had neither received much scholarly attention nor been studied as a set.
Napoléon en musique
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- Tuesday, 08 June 2021
A l'occasion du bicentenaire de la mort de Napoléon, nous revenons sur les compositeurs qui se sont laissés inspirer par l'Empereur, qui déchaîne fascinations et déceptions. De Beethoven à Fauré, nombreux sont les artistes à mettre en musique victoires et défaites napoléoniennes.
¿Es esto música? Lego confunde a Spotify con un disco en el que solo se oyen piezas caer
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- Tuesday, 08 June 2021
La firma danesa de juguetes ha subido a internet un álbum de 210 minutos con sonidos de sus piezas. La de supermercados Lidl lo hizo antes, con ambiente de sus tiendas. ¿Qué buscan estos raros productos en sus oyentes y qué opiniones suscitan entre musicólogos?
Eurovision 2021 Brings Color, Camp, Kitsch, and Hope
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- Tuesday, 25 May 2021
If there was ever a year we needed Eurovision, this is it. The annual celebration of color, kitsch, and quirky positivity – canceled last year due to Covid – returned this year and the competition final takes place on Saturday, 22 May in Rotterdam.
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