PRODUCER WEEK 2025: For today's free and easy music producers, the knotty business of music theory has always had a slight whiff of the uncool about it. Talk of Major and Minor scales conjure up ...

Often called the universal language, music may well represent life itself. Having studied a wide range of biomaterials, from amino-acids and viruses to spider-silk, Markus Buehler and Mario Milazzo ...

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 ...

It depends on what you mean by “out of tune”. If you are referring to melodies, the answer is that people have built-in expectations of how a tune will develop, based on whatever musical scale their ...

Back in the day, before the technological advancements that brought us DAWs, a working knowledge of music theory was a necessity for music-making. Now, due to major innovations in the creative tools ...

If viewed within the bewildering context of the history of western music, the triad is one of the absolute bedrocks of all ...