When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There can be little doubt that understanding how music works can help you to make better music; ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There are 12 notes on a piano keyboard: C to C and repeat. But in almost all music, the point is ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Concert pianist Gerard Willems calls it ''this great big new monster''. Fortunately it is also ''just heaven to play''. Willems is ...

What are microtones, and why are they not an everyday part of classical music? We explore the history and mysteries of the ‘notes in between the notes’. Music is broadly defined as humanly-organised ...