This article originally appeared on Medical Daily. Many of us have experienced last song syndrome: We get in the car, turn on the radio, and hear the same top 40 songs on repeat every hour. Suddenly, ...

People all over the world sing songs, and the different songs they sing have certain things in common. It has long been known that songs tend to be constructed from musical scales; that is, from a ...

Johnson also takes an interrelated, interdisciplinary approach to his subject with his proposal that his book does not affirm or exemplify a split between musical theory, music history, and the ...

Almost all of us get songs stuck in our heads from time to time but why do certain tunes have the 'stick factor'? The first large-scale study, led by Dr Kelly Jakubowski at Durham University, may have ...

Let’s get one thing clear: The Walmart Yodeling kid is great. Mason Ramsey aka Little Hank, the eleven-year-old Illinoisan who shot to internet stardom after a video of him covering Hank Williams’ ...

WASHINGTON - If you've found yourself singing along to Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" hours after you switched the radio off, you are not alone. Certain songs do tend to stick in our heads more than others ...

A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say it—in a way, to hum it to yourself. You desire, if only in the sound studio of your ...