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 ...

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 ...

Key universal features in world music may have their roots in the ever-present sound of the human voice during the course of evolution, suggests a new study. The analysis of thousands of recorded ...