The musician wren is aptly-named, because these birds use the same intervals in their songs that are heard as consonant in many human cultures. This is a what composer and musicologist and a biologist ...

Play two notes that are three steps away on a musical scale, like C and the F-sharp above it, and you have what’s called the Devil’s Interval. It has long been used to symbolize tension, sinister ...

In musical tuning, deviations from the simple frequency ratios of pure consonant intervals are often necessary. These deviations are called temperings. They result in beats in the sounding interval.

This news release is available in German. The origin of human music has long been the subject of intense discussion between philosophers, cultural scientists and naturalists. Researchers from the Max ...

Some combinations of notes inherently sound better than others, right? It’s why the bread and butter of pop music, which is engineered to be upbeat and danceable, is highly consonant major chords.

Science all but confirms that humans are hard-wired to respond to music. Studies also suggest that someday music may even help patients heal from Parkinson's disease or a stroke. In The Power of Music ...

Up until the last century, it was common practice for composers to be equally at home on the concert stage. Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Paganini, Mendelssohn, Liszt and Rachmaninoff were all considered ...

Your music preferences are built from the songs you listened to when you were young, the unique vibrations of your skull and even how your brain waves groove along. All this helps determine when and ...