It was 11am on a busy working day in 1980 at Newcastle Central Station. One of the principal gateways to our region, for many stepping off their trains, the station offers the first glimpse of the ...

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A few weeks ago, at a music conference, a senior professor of the folk arts had just concluded a deeply moving presentation on a marginalised music tradition. An academic discussion about this ancient ...

I hope you enjoy these melodies/songs as much as I enjoyed compiling this list of my favorites and yours. So fun to explore such beauty that ranges from Puccini, to Ravel, to Joplin, to Glenn ...

The experiment consisted of 88 trials in which participants were asked to either listen or perform mental imagery of ∼35 s melodies from a corpus of Bach chorales (see section “Stimuli and Procedure”) ...