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 ...

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 ...

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 ...