Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Scales are the building blocks of most music. That’s why I – and maybe you – have had to spend ...

A simplification of this scheme leads to a tuning method – “just intonation” – that involves smaller ratios and is more ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...

It depends on what you mean by “out of tune”. If you are referring to melodies, the answer is that people have built-in expectations of how a tune will develop, based on whatever musical scale their ...