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Excerpt of Ross Duffin’s chapter on music in Shakespeare’s plays published by Oxford University Press

 JULY 22, 2016The Oxford University Press published an excerpt from Ross Duffin’s chapter in the Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare.Duffin, the Fynette H. Kulas Professor of Music, wrote a chapter titled “Music and the Stage in the Time of Shakespeare.”He explained the history of instruments from William Shakespeare’s...

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Sports practice accounts for just 1 percent of the performance differences among elite athletes

Among elite athletes, practice accounts for a scant 1 percent of the difference in their performances—and starting sports at an early age does not necessarily provide athletes an upper hand—according to new research. Brooke Macnamara “While practice is necessary for elite athletes to reach a high level of competition, after a...

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