Sleigh bells have long acted as convenient shorthand for composers to tell their listeners that this piece belongs to the ...

Scientists from Charles Darwin onward have speculated that, for our early ancestors, music predated—and possibly formed the ...

Welcome back to Prog 's Christmas Tracks Of The Week. A slight deviation this week, as Christmas is only a week away, and the world seems to be slowly moving into holiday mode, and, well, basically, ...

The difference between retirees who thrive and those who fade isn't about money or health, it's about what they choose to do ...

Cowbirds are special among songbirds for the "watery" timbre of their singing, which resembles the sound of falling droplets ...

Born from punk’s flickering embers, goth has always been more than a soundtrack for the suntan-averse. In the late 70s and ...

Whether it’s the sound of a relative humming a festive melody before the tree is even up, or the immediate rush to crank the volume as soon as the radio stations switch to the classics, Christmas ...

We hear them from one Yuletide after another, the sounds of the season we’ve known and loved for decades. Just how much do ...

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