Music Cognition

DSO to perform opus 'Einstein's Dream,' inspired by iconic genius

9 Feb 2012

Seeking congruity in seemingly disparate musical elements, composer Cindy McTee created "Einstein's Dream" for large orchestra and computer-generated sounds. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra will perform it this weekend.

Gryphon House, Inc. Launches an Expert Panel of Guest Bloggers

3 Feb 2012

Gryphon House, Inc. teams up with authors to create a new panel of guest contributors on the Gryphon House blog.Lewisville, NC (PRWEB) February 03, 2012 Gryphon House, Inc. is pleased to partner with several authors and experts in the field of early childhood education in order to introduce a new series to the Gryphon House blog – The Gryphon House Author Bloggers Panel. Parents and educators ...

No, Really: Teach Your Toddler Perfect Pitch

1 Feb 2012

Conventional wisdom holds you’re born with perfect pitch or you’re not. The conventional wisdom is wrong. Here’s how to train perfect pitch. For my book Brain Trust, I interviewed Diana Deutsch, University of California San Diego professor and president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, and she said the trick is pairing pitch with [...]