Franklin Pierce University Department of Music

04/02/2021

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/want-smarter-kids-teach-music-not-coding-according-to-mit.html?fbclid=IwAR2ZNzuvTj18AS-StRuHjyE3vzHjKC0ThebcbdVu7cKj-CCcQmsRZVW_fs0

The latest neuroscience shows that learning a musical instrument increases brain power.

10/22/2020

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3AAG08X-_89w82nX2jj_Qac1kjqwcM7JSwIWSD6HFRN__mfGmTIqt0eXE&v=hUpPBcg1cYY

I know that some of you may think that I'm doing a lame parody of this song or poking fun at Eddy... But no, actually I'm heartbroken because one of my guita...

05/04/2020

https://laughingsquid.com/beatboxing-siri/

Chinese musician and beatbox champion Heartgrey performed his own take on using calculations made by Siri as a backing track to demonstrate an impressive

03/24/2020

FPU Music Tech alum!

“Turns out this was a pretty big bite ... but I’ll be bored when it’s done,” said Alex Burnet, singer and guitarist for Laundry Day, the Proud Flesh and others,...

01/12/2020

Jazz Band Dec 2019

11/05/2019

09/14/2019

https://www.smartmusic.com/blog/neuroscience-and-music-education-why-what-we-do-is-so-important/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Exploring the basic workings of the brain – and how they impact learning – can help us better understand how our students learn and process music.

09/01/2019

31 August
1795: François-André Danican Philidor dies at his home at 10 Little Ryder Street, London, United Kingdom, aged 68 years, eleven months, and 24 days. An obituary for this composer of over 25 operas will begin, “On Monday last, Mr. Philidor, the celebrated chess player, made his last move, into the other world.”

1895: Joseph Moiseyevich Schillinger is born in Kharkov, Russian Empire (Kharkiv, Ukraine), the only child of Moses Schillinger and Anna Gielgur.