The human brain operates as a tireless prediction machine. It watches a dropped glass and anticipates the shatter. It listens ...

Journal of Research in Music Education, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Apr., 2009), pp. 16-25 (10 pages) Attention to subtle changes in music, whether inadvertent or purposeful, occupies a great deal of practice and ...

Context is everything. It helps us predict what may happen next and what the people around us may do or say. Music can add to this context. In films, music allows us to anticipate what’s coming and ...

Of all the changes technology has wrought to my listening habits and way of experiencing music, the biggest impact has come from the way my iPod destroys context. The most obvious benefit of the iPod ...

“Rumors about the impending exit have swirled for months, reaching a crescendo in recent days.” – Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2013. Awhile back I commented on music critic Scott ...

The present experiment was designed to localize the neural substrates that process music-syntactic incongruities, using magnetoencephalography (MEG). Electrically, such processing has been proposed to ...

Context presents music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, embodying the new trends in music as Romanticism began to fade. Arnold Schoenberg, self-portrait, 1908. On this latest ...