Music listening, performance, and composition engage nearly every area of the brain that we have so far identified, and involve nearly every neural subsystem.
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The Sesotho verb for singing (ho bina), as in many of the world’s languages, also means to dance; there is no distinction, since it is assumed that singing involves bodily movement.
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memory is not particularly accurate
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Like Einstein, Newton was a very poor student, and his teachers often complained of his inattentiveness. Ultimately, Newton was kicked out of school.)
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Heinrich Hertz, the German theoretical physicist who was the first to transmit radio waves (a dyed-in-the-wool theoretician, when asked what practical use radio waves might have, he reportedly shrugged, “None”)
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The official definition of the Acoustical Society of America is that timbre is everything about a sound that is not loudness or pitch. So much for scientific precision!
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Knowing precisely when to hit the next note, and allowing the listener time to anticipate it, is a hallmark of Davis’s genius. This is particularly apparent in his album Kind of Blue.
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higher-order concepts such as meter, key, melody, and harmony.
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In the Beach Boys’ song “Barbara Ann,” the first seven notes are all sung on the same pitch
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the “Alphabet Song” (the same as “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”)