Life begins with music. The human body provides the basic musical elements for the soundtrack to fetal development. The rhythmic pulsing of mom’s heartbeat, the rise and fall of her footsteps, the ...

What makes music unique, unlike other forms of expression or communication? I suspect most people could put together a personal list of several things. But among the most important have to be the ways ...

Even rats can keep a beat. Scientists have discovered that rats are able to perceive the beat of music and bop their heads along to the rhythm – an attribute previously thought to exist only in humans ...

When the drummer starts beatin' that beat, he nails that beat with the syncopated rhythm and the rat, tat, tat, tat, tat, tat on the drums. // Turn the beat around (I'm talkin' about the beat). Love ...

When Chiara de Gregorio thinks of rhythm, two things come to mind: the mega-hit “We Will Rock You” by the British band Queen and endangered lemurs. The simple, well-timed beats in “We Will Rock You” ...

Rats can bop their heads to a rhythm like humans, a study has found. Researchers monitored rats' head movements while they were played music at different tempos. The animals were best at keeping in ...

Rhythm games combine the fun of a video game with the joy of listening to music. The genre has been through many iterations, from pioneers of the genre PaRappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy, movement ...

There’s no longer a valid excuse for the oboes being a bar behind at wind band rehearsal because a new study has found that even macaque monkeys can learn to tap along to the beat of human music.