- The church banned the augmented fourth (the interval between C and F sharp) because it was believed to be the work of the devil.
- The church banned music that contained more than one musical part playing at a time because they thought it would cause people do doubt the unity of God.
- The auditory system of the fetus is completely developed 20 weeks after conception, and it can hear music inside the womb. Infants tend to prefer the music they heard in the womb.
- A woman suffering from musicogenic epilepsy had seizures whenever she heard more than a few bars of music (guardian)
- Another woman suffered from a similar condition: musicophopia. Whenever she heard a song she liked she had seizures
- Music does induce physiological responses (shivers down the spine, increased heart rate, etc…) Read more about it in the music and health page.
- People who take music classes as children have better hearing as adults (bbc health)
- Everybody is born with perfect pitch; you just lose it if you don’t need it. (bbc health)
- The music you remember most clearly and fondly in your middle age will be what you listened to when you were 16-21 (barker)
- Adriano Celentano wrote a song in gibberish designed to sound like american english: