Rhythm and Language

The following came to me courtesy of Ben Norman, a music educator for the Clay County school district in Florida, who I've known since my undergraduate days at Jacksonville University. It's a great read that covers a lot of topics related to rhythm, but below is the part on language: Rhythm is tied to language.…

The Ramifications of Post-Modernism in Music

On April 26th, linguist John McWhorter took issue with the 12-tone approach to music and the damage it wrought on modern art music in The New York Times: https://twitter.com/JohnHMcWhorter/status/1519885682759639041?s=20&t=jUJdk9_3-2HVCKakvRZR6Q He alluded to the political undercurrent of atonal classical music, pointing out the comments of Pierre Boulez and the historical fascist response to 12-tone and atonal…

Mapping the musical mind: the link between musical and language processing — Music Education Works

I've posted before on the link between linguistic syntax, music, and the research opportunities music could afford a conversation of syntactic acquisition. This article from Music Education Works discusses research out of Japan on the link between music and language. Researchers in Japan have found a specific link between musical processing and areas of the…