Music and mental health are independent endeavors that bring people calm, focus and joy. They overlap a lot. (*Understand “mental health” as well-being in the overlapping life contexts of cognition, ...

Folk music is in Laura Marling’s blood. The English singer-songwriter’s mother taught music and her father, a guitarist, ran a recording studio and introduced her to his instrument in her first few ...

Step into Kristen Brunacini’s music classroom at C.C. Ring Elementary School and you’ll likely find students clapping, ...

Today in research: a Nobel phone call, classical music weather patterns, space ship Earth, and sedentary iPad owners..

Language and music may share evolutionary functions. Both speech and song have features such as rhythm and pitch. But are similarities and differences between speech and song shared across cultures?

Fun with Shapes Patterns & Music is an Australian edutainment game targeted towards kids aged 3 to 6 that is made to teach children about shapes, pattern recognition and music. In the first years of ...

Among Nashville's many busy singer-songwriters, none may currently be going through as prodigious a process of making and releasing music as Kelsea Ballerini. The Grammy nominee and Country Music ...

Kelsea Ballerini's fifth studio album, "Patterns," arrived at the close of October. It finds her empathetically navigating the latest chapter of her life with truth and vulnerability. Ballerini always ...

The way Kelsea Ballerini sees it, people expected her to do two things on her high-wire act of a new album: “One, to go pop,” she says. “And two, to go soft.” The pop move has been anticipated since ...