Music is a powerful tool for conveying mood, whether heard via a live performance or movie soundtrack, making it an effective medium for understanding how people identify and respond to emotions.

Inferring emotions in music is not only satisfying but also transferable to real-life success, helping us to understand human communication with clarity, cohesion, and context.

BRISTOL, Va. — It was nearly time to hitch on backpacks and heed the carpool announcements delivered over walkie-talkie. But first, the kids in teacher Meghan Groves’ first-grade classroom were taking ...

Discover the joy of music with Jennifer Giangiulio and the Alpine Orchestra. From teaching to performing, she shares her love ...

A teacher says that social and emotional learning “transformed our classroom into one full of joy, laughter, empowerment and grit.” Credit: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...

After a number of years teaching music and ethnomusicology and being a source of energy, enthusiasm, and great ideas at the Latin American Studies program, professor Michael Birenbaum Quintero is ...

Andrea Burns uses social-emotional learning books in her classroom. A Kansas teacher is raising awareness about a teaching method that she says is helping students tap into their mental health and ...

Is it emotionally intelligent to stuff your emotions? If you’re using music to change your mood you’re missing the point. You have an emotional intelligence superpower and need to know how to access ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How have you incorporated music in nonmusic classes? Many of our students are entranced by music, and it’s a big part of their lives. How many of us teachers, however, ...

The decision not to recruit music and phys ed teachers comes in for harsh criticism. For a choir director, it “is like ...