This video explains how 19th century French physicist Jules Antoine Lissajous used tuning forks to map out two-dimensional ...

All melodies and harmony in Western music is typically built from just 12 notes. Whether it’s a sumptuous symphony, flourishing concerto or your favourite song, it will contain 12 familiar tones – and ...

For example, an interval of just one semitone is known as a minor second, while an interval of seven semitones is known as a perfect fifth. Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, ...

Daniel Bowling, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University, analyzed the intervals, or distances between notes, in melodies from Western classical music and Indian ragas in a study published in ...

From the octave leap in Harold Arlen’s beloved ‘Over the Rainbow’, to that irresistible Bernstein tritone in ‘Maria’ from West Side Story, we celebrate the very best intervals found in the whole ...