Science news articles about 'musicians'

(AP) -- The Bee Gees' Robin Gibb and other European music composers warned Thursday that standardizing music royalties across Europe could hurt musicians and the songs they write.

... the "musical grammar". This response was enhanced, however, when the sonatas were played by musicians rather than a computer. Dr Koelsch said: "It was interesting for us that the emotional ...

... non-musicians in terms of their performance, this finding was not simply due to the musicians inventing more uses; there seems to be a qualitative difference in how they think about this information ...

... ) and spent additional time practicing at home. While it is no surprise that the young musicians scored significantly higher than those in the control group on two skills closely related to their ...

... settings," Strait says. The authors of the study also note that the acoustic elements that musicians process more efficiently are the very same ones that children with language disorders, such as ...

A few Canadian classical musicians are warming up for a major gig at New York's Carnegie Hall this week as part of the inaugural Youtube Orchestra.

... simply by lifestyle choices made by certain musician groups. "The number of hours practiced per ... Ward. The study surveyed 847 professional musicians, including 760 instrumentalists and 87 conductors ...

The naturalistic respiratory muscle training with high resistance wind instruments may potentially reduce musicians' risk for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a research abstract that will ...

... .  The finding from a study conducted by neurobiologists at Northwestern University in Chicago is the first biological evidence that musicians' have a perceptual advantage for "speech-in-noise."

You've heard birdsong — now listen and learn about up-and-coming mammal musicians.

(AP) -- Rocker Neil Young plans to release his entire music archive on Blu-ray discs, a sign that the discs' capabilities are building appeal among musicians as well as movie studios.

An East Carolina University biologist has named a new species of trapdoor spider after the musician Neil Young.

Claudius Conrad is investigating music’s power to both stimulate and soothe.

He's not well known like President Bush and musician Neil Young, but Philadelphian Frank Gallagher now has something in common with them: He has a new species named after him. Gallagher was The ...

People with tune deafness aren't able to tell when a musician accidentally strikes the wrong note in a song, but their brains know the difference. Researchers from the National Institute on Deafness ...