This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Repetition and novelty are essential components of tonal music. Previous research suggests that the degree of repetitiveness of a line can ...

New research shows that listeners perceive repeated environmental sounds as music. Water dripping. A shovel scraping across rock. These sounds don't seem very musical. Yet new research at the ...

Repetition (doing the same thing repeatedly) is essential for learning and mastering new skills. Task repetition is a key to transforming short-term memories into long-term memories. Repetition is ...

Fact, 90% of the music we listen to is music we've heard before. Why, when there are hundreds of thousands of songs released each year, do we choose to listen to the same ones over and over? The ...

Mike Errico - Author, Music, Lyrics Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter Just as songs repeat in choruses, formations in space take understandable shapes. Pictured here are the large ...

Whether we grew up taking musical lessons or not, we've all been trained to see music in a linear fashion. We read music left-to-right along the horizontal lines of musical staffs, and watch it ...

Time now for your letters. On Wednesday we explored the difference between Ukraine and the Ukraine. The Ukraine is a common construction. In our story we noted the nation's constitution clearly names ...