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 ...

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 ...

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 ...