Music is a universal language. Or so musicians like to claim. “With music,” they’ll say, “you can communicate across cultural and linguistic boundaries in ways that you can’t with ordinary languages ...

Are acoustic features of music and spoken language shared across cultures? Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen have contributed to a global study of music and ...

“What is music?” my friend asked me. I explained how we, as humans, instinctively react to music by moving our bodies in weird ways, just dancing, and that’s universally understood. I thought that was ...

From solo concerts to restaurant gigs to weddings to playing in bands, Larry Zbikowskihad played it all. Yet, 25 years ago, the classically trained guitarist found himself thinking he was just ...

Which came first: language or music? Traditionally, music has been considered an evolutionary by-product of language. Language, after all, is one of the few skills we have that makes us uniquely human ...

Luther grads are global citizens. In few areas is this more evident than in our wide array of alumni teaching music abroad. These exploratory, open-minded, open-hearted teachers take their strong ...

Legend has it that once upon a time, people all spoke the same language. They decided to build a city and a tower as high as possible, to get closer to God. God, annoyed by this act of defiance by ...