Have you ever looked at a piano keyboard and wondered why the notes of an octave were divided up into seven white keys and five black ones? After all, the sounds that lie between one C and another ...

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 ...

Theories of the origin of musical scales from the ancient Greeks to the present day have assumed that the intervals comprising scales are defined by specific mathematical ratios. Such theories are ...

AT the Society of Arts yesterday, Sir F. Abel, C.B., F.R.S., Chairman of the Council, in the chair, Mr. Alexander J. Ellis, F.R.S., read a paper on “The Musical ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Anthony Tommasini MENTION the term 12-tone music to many veteran classical concertgoers and watch them recoil. Twelve-tone music? All those ...