Fred Lerdahl proposes a theory of the sounds of poetry conceived in musical terms.

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What Rodgers and Hammerstein, then later filmmakers, changed about this classic. — -- “The Sound of Music” has remained one of the most iconic films in history since it was released 50 years ago.

The iconic shower scene in Psycho was originally supposed to play out without music. Instead composer Bernard Herrmann created “The Murder”: as the killing transpires, violins shriek and scream along ...

How do we like the music that we like? The answer involves more than our brain—it also involves our body. Understanding this process is a focus of Rebecca Lepping, Ph.D., a music neuroscientist at the ...