Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape -- and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry ...

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Johnny Cash's Hurt hits way different in A Major, as much so as Ring of Fire in G Minor. The dissonance in tone between the chords is, ahem, a minor one: simply the third note lowered to a flat. But ...

A new study shows that music changes brain activity during eye contact, helping people feel more connected and socially ...

Musical chords seem to mimic human emotions , according to Duke University neuroscientists. In two new studies, researchers found that the musical scales most commonly used over the centuries are ...

Did you know that you don’t actually need to be talented or have a natural ear for music to play it well? Not having natural ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...