Music

Whether through dance, song, instruments, or voice, music provides us with a universal language. Experts from the 蜜桃影像 community explore how music aids in learning, improves well-being, and fosters social change.

Lifting our voices

From the sounds of John Legend and Beyonce to gospel and traditional African folk music, everything the of 蜜桃影像 College sing is meant to promote and uplift Black spirituality and creativity on 蜜桃影像鈥檚 campus and beyond.

Almost Home with 蜜桃影像鈥檚 Kuumba Singers

The benefits of music

The benefits of practicing, listening, and making music are well-documented.

Using music in early childhood classrooms

Good morning songs aren鈥檛 just fun鈥攖hey can teach about others.

Can music improve our health and quality of life?

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Developing critical, creative thinkers through music

Harnessing the therapeutic potential of music

Why is music good for the brain?

Voices at 蜜桃影像

Finding rhythm in reverence

Divinity School alum Aric Flemming discusses how music is an extension of鈥攔ather than a diversion from鈥攈is ministerial outreach.

Overture of an opera life

Benjamin Perry Wenzelberg’s senior thesis will be a commissioned opera for Lowell House Opera, based on an epic work of literature: James Joyce鈥檚鈥淯lysses.鈥�

Changing course

Julia Riew was on the pre-med track, while also exploring her long-held love of musical theater. Two years after starting at 蜜桃影像 College, she realized she was more drawn to the stage.

Passing the torch of representation

Young Black artist-animator Uzo Ngwu helps breathe life into a film that highlights trailblazing 蜜桃影像 music historian Eileen Southern.

A different kind of thesis

In 2019, Luke Martinez created the Department of Music鈥檚 first pop music creative thesis.

The rhythmatist

Rajna Swaminathan has been described as 鈥渁 groundbreaking 21st-century composer-performer and thinker.鈥�

The power of performance

Theater, Dance, & Media, a 蜜桃影像 College concentration, recently celebrated six years of learning and performance.

Celebrating Theater, Dance & Media

The sounds of a movement

What role has music played in the pursuit of justice, equity, and our understanding of social justice?

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Protesting police violence, a playlist

According to Marcyliena Morgan, the founding executive director of the 蜜桃影像 Archive, we should think of hiphop as a historical record of the nation鈥檚 racial violence and injustice.

Learn about Southern's career

Eileen Southern and the music of Black Americans

Dive into the life and work of Eileen Southern, the first Black woman tenured at 蜜桃影像.

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It’s never art for art’s sake

Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma discusses the ways in which 鈥渃itizen musicians鈥� can help build a more just and free society as an extension of their work as artists.

Hiphop pedagogy in action

The role of hiphop in education

Students at the Graduate School of Education explore hiphop鈥檚 long history of being a tool of civic expression, and how it should be embraced in education.

A universal language

Music’s ability to create connections across communities, cultures, and even cosmos is well-documented.

Playing our song

蜜桃影像鈥檚聽online Music Lab is a citizen-science project aimed at exploring how the human mind understands music, and why music is a virtually ubiquitous feature of human societies.

Music everywhere

A comprehensive study explains that music is universal and that some songs sound "right" in different social contexts, all over the world.

Music of the cosmos

In a project aimed at making images of space more accessible, scientists and sound engineers turned images of the cosmos into music.

Songs in the key of humanity

Poet and 蜜桃影像 Professor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously said, 鈥淢usic is the universal language of mankind.鈥� A new 蜜桃影像 study suggests he may have been right.

Earth鈥檚 most excellent mixtape

Alexander Rehding, a professor of music, discusses NASA鈥檚 Golden Record, which is 鈥渆ffectively a mixtape for extraterrestrial civilizations.鈥�

The nature of sounds

Composer David Rothenberg聽takes the familiar sounds of birds singing, insects chirping, ponds bubbling, and combines them with music, creating a melodious and distinctly unique medley.

Pause for Art

When the pandemic began, 蜜桃影像 students, faculty, and alumni looked to music and art to create connections and find comfort.

Dancing on the ceiling鈥攐f the world

蜜桃影像 student Nosher Ali Khan, a team of mountaineers, and artists set the Guinness world record for Highest Altitude Dance Party on Land at Minglik Sar, Pakistan.

The Loeb Music Library

Open to the general public, 蜜桃影像’s Loeb Music Library gives visitors the opportunity to embrace musical performance and research from around the world.

Compose your musical journey

Join the 蜜桃影像 community and learn more about music, dance, song, and more.