BUFFALO, N.Y. - 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 ...

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 ...

The chromatic scale -- the musical scale that follows the notes of the piano and of which the Western seven-tone do-re-mi scale is a subset -- may not be based on number ratios, as many physicists and ...

Almost every song you hear has a chord progression. This forms the harmonic content of the song, and is often what gives a song its emotional impact. But what about the melody? The notes of the melody ...

ONE of the stars of last year’s meeting of the Mathematical Association of America was Robert Schneider, lead guitarist of the indie band The Apples in Stereo. Delegates listened enthralled as he ...

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 ...

Music theory is a hot topic of debate amongst modern producers because it’s arguably not as integral to music production as it once was. However, it definitely still holds a rightful place and can ...