Scientists have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some ...

Last Friday, a fellow music-nut friend of mine sent me a link to an iPhone app based on composer Steve Reich's "Clapping Music." I've become totally obsessed with beating it. Anybody who's played ...

I’ve often dreamed of being a drummer. Not that I’ve actually worked to make it happen — come on, that would take years of sustained effort. But I’ve led countless family rhythm get-downs while ...

A new study suggests that human bodies react to music in subtle ways that bypass conscious awareness. Researchers have ...

Good news if you can't hold a beat: An app called Steve Reich’s Clapping Music might be able to fix you. Clapping Music, from the British app shop Touchpress, is a gamified lesson in tempo. It plays ...

Stuck on a tricky math problem? Start clapping. Grade school kids who learned about fractions through a rhythm-and-music-based curriculum outperformed their peers in traditional math classes. The work ...

The 11-piece early-instrument ensemble will collaborate with Houston-based Arte Puro to explore the traditional roots of the ...

Justin Bieber recently took it upon himself to address a bad clapping situation. As the Biebs sang “What Do You Mean?” on the Spanish TV show El Hormiguero in MTV Unplugged style, sitting on a stool ...

The Starkville/MSU Symphony presented its annual family concert Friday [Nov. 8] evening with community-centered prelude performances for school children that day. Celebrating this year's theme of ...

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London have developed an app to understand why some rhythms are more difficult to perform than others. They collected and analysed a huge dataset of more than ...