These days music is often sound floating in the background rather than a focus. There's a playlist for everything: cooking, ...

Have you ever gone to a store or a restaurant where the music was so annoying that you walked right out? Now imagine what it must be like for the employees.

A new study examines the relationship between the type of beats you listen to and your productivity on certain tasks. Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but ...

So background music during study sessions might not work for you. According to a 2017 study published in Frontiers in Psychology , it can be a distraction and impair learning for some. Do what works.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered that complete musical tracks serve as powerful cues for ...

Music can change how people remember the past, a psychology researcher explained in a new study. Music has more power on the brain than we ever realized. Primary Menu Sections ...

Apple has teamed up with Universal Music Group (UMG) to make a new Sound Therapy collection of tracks for Apple Music that are “designed to help listeners attain clearer focus, deeper relaxation ...

Getting one's groove on, A.K.A. busting a move, is an age-old tradition that dates back more than 50,000 years to the time of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnon humans, who rhythmically writhed to ...

Enrollment in a UD musical ensemble is strongly encouraged but not required for Merit or Honors Private Study. These private lesson courses (MUSC150 or MUSC155) can count as elective credits toward a ...