In this study, we focus on processes involved in predicting the following three important features of tonality: discreteness of tonal intervals in musical scales, Just Intonation, and familiarity as a ...

One scale that goes from C to B, with five equivalent flats and sharps in between, makes up pretty much all the melodies in Western music – but how did we get to these 12 notes? All melodies and ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If we were to say the word ‘interval’ to you, what would your first thought be? The theatre? Ice ...

The notes to this thoughtful and beautifully executed disc suggest this is the first collection in which the tunes share the trait of all starting with an octave interval. True, perhaps, but what sets ...

There can be little doubt that understanding how music works can help you to make better music; or, at the very least, make things easier when you’re at the composing stage of your project. Here, we ...

97 keys, and just a single octave. Take a listen to this microtonal piano, which disrupts all the standard rules of Western tuning. This extraordinary piano contains just a single octave of musical ...