Performance: The Many Sounds of the Violin
Daniel Bernard Roumain demonstrates the many sounds the violin can imitate for a group of students.
Daniel Bernard Roumain demonstrates the many sounds the violin can imitate for a group of students.
Michael Fitzpatrick uses a composition performed on his cello to explain the nature of vibrations and frequency.
Music therapist Concetta M. Tomaino says music seems to able to reach us when movement, memory, speech, and emotion have to all appearances been destroyed by injury or disease.
In part two of the interview with Daniel Levitin, learn about his take on the purpose of music and different arguments for the evolutionary origin of music.
In part three of Daniel Levitin's interview, learn about the medical implications of the research investigating the relationships between cognition and music.
Bobby McFerrin and world musicians Yungchen Lhamo of Tibet, Christiane Karam of Lebanon, and Gino Sitson of Cameroon improvise a cross cultural melody.
In this father son duet, Taylor and Bobby McFerrin improvise a new a capella tune.
Evelyn Glennie performs the piece Restless.
Daniel Bernard Romain performs a solo version of Cathedral demonstrating a range of sonic qualities that can be acheived on the violin.
In this clip, watch Jarvis Cocker and Richard Hawley perform the song Born to Cry prior to participating in an experiment on social cognition in music.
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