Music has the power to soothe the mind, promote brain health and bring people closer together. Singing, listening to music or making music all promote health.

Classical music lifts our mood by "synchronizing" different parts of the brain, according to a new study. The discovery could ...

Music, as they say, nourishes the soul, and in this article, we’ll explore how classical music can positively influence our brain and emotions. Why We Listen to Music Humans have created and ...

CLASSICAL music helps beat the blues by triggering your brain’s reward centre. Bach or Beethoven’s finest works can release feel-good chemicals, researchers have found. Their neurological ...

Music isn't just good for the soul - it's also good for the brain, according to new research by scientists at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

During the concert, we were reminded how listening to classical music makes us smarter: studies found that, while you get the most cognitive benefits from learning to play classical music, even ...

Piano Concerto No. 23 – Mozart. It’s long been rumoured that listening to Mozart is good for focusing (some studies even say it could make your baby smarter). While there may be no proof in that ...

So why has ‘classical’ stuck? ‘Classical’ seems to work as a catch-all term of Western art music genres because it evokes this Classical, ordered era of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven in which so many ...

It doesn't stop at feelings and perceptions though. Music can also have an "ergogenic" or work-enhancing effect. The psychologist Mária Rendi used slow and fast movements from Beethoven's ...