We examined music education majors' ability to reproduce rhythmic stimuli presented in melody and rhythm only conditions. Participants reproduced rhythms of two-measure music examples by immediately ...

The human brain appears biased toward hearing and producing rhythms with simple integer ratios, but the favored ratios can vary greatly between different societies, according to a 15-country study.

No matter how much you know about reggaeton, it’s likely that you are familiar with that unmistakable two-bar loop: boom ch-boom-chick. That sound is colloquially known as a dembow riddim, one of the ...

“Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.” —Edward Hirsh Rhythm. It is ...