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

For singers and their audiences, being 'in tune' might not be as important as we think. The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of ...

If viewed within the bewildering context of the history of western music, the triad is one of the absolute bedrocks of all ...

Naming seven colors to correspond to seven notes is “a kind of very strange and interesting thing for him to have done,” says Peter Pesic, physicist, pianist, and author of the 2014 book Music and the ...

Max Meyer, founder of the Psychological Sciences Department, added to the field of music with the creation of his own scale.

There’s no such thing as a nasty-sounding chord: it all depends on what you’re used to. That’s the suggestion from a study of more than 160 people from the US and Bolivia, which found that people may ...