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With the 19th century began the practice, still maintained, of singing Psalm 78 at each sermon to the tune of "St. Martin...
...hard to exaggerate the effect music can have on the human brain. A mere snippet of song from the past can trigger memories as vivid as anything Proust experienced from the aroma of his petite madeleine. A tune can induce emotions ranging from unabashed joy to deep sorrow and can drive listeners into states of patriotic fervor or religious frenzy--to say nothing of its legendary ability to soothe the savage breast...
...This goes way beyond an inability to carry a tune," observes psychologist Isabelle Peretz of the University of Montreal. "They can't dance, and they can't tell the difference between consonance [harmony] and dissonance either. They all appear to have been born without the wiring necessary to process music." Intriguingly, people with amusia show no overt signs of brain damage or short-term-memory impairment, and magnetic-resonance-imaging scans of their brains look normal...
...next installment, due to appear in June, will focus on technology--a fitting conclusion to our five-part series. Please tune in to our newsmagazine show on CNN, which is broadcasting a companion series of one-hour specials. And please continue to visit us at time.com/v21 where I can confidently predict we will always look forward to your comments and suggestions...
...Palme d'Or goes to..." purred the enduring French actress. And just then Luc Besson, the French director who served as the president of this year's jury, bobbed his head in front of the microphone and hummed a few bars from a plaintive song. The tune was from the winning film, whose name Besson finally pronounced: "Dancer in the Dark...