Regarding the Jan. 3 letter, “Camera headline used insensitive language,” suggesting the Daily Camera should have avoided or paraphrased the word “tone-deaf” in a recent front-page headline: The term ...

You’re reading a report and trying to concentrate. The room is silent. But despite your best efforts to focus, a little snatch of melody – an “earworm” – keeps circling inside your head. Research ...

The iconoclastic American composer become cultural monument Charles Ives was born 150 years ago last Sunday. Ulysses S. Grant was then in the midst of his second term as president. Ives’s father ...

When I tell my partner, friends or family that I’m a terrible singer, nobody says “What? We’ve never noticed!” or reassures me that I’m overreacting. In my tiny primary school, where choir had to be ...

A tone-deaf person is unable to identify melodies. A new study succeeded in locating the likely origin of tone deafness, or amusia, in the brain by investigating cases resulting from a stroke. Amusia ...

When you go to karaoke, there are people who sing well and people who don't, but there are people who are 'tone deaf' who can't match the pitch at all. In the first place, Live Science, a scientific ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up of young man singing karaoke while enjoying with friends in party. Sure, not everyone has pipes like Adele. But we all ...

Adriana Barton is a science journalist and cellist. Her new book Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound is a blend of science and memoir. In it, she explores music ...

"There isn't a medical explanation." UMI Films + Rai Cinema have revealed a first look teaser trailer for an interesting new Italian film titled Amusia, premiering this month at the Tallinn Black ...