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 ...

IN Chap, viii of his forthcoming work on “Some Questions of Musical Theory” (“From Seven to Seventeen”. Pp. 137–166. Cambridge: W. Heifer and Sons, Ltd., 1934. 2s. Qd. net), Dr. W. Perrett divides the ...

Almost every song you hear has a chord progression. This forms the harmonic content of the song, and is often what gives a song its emotional impact. But what about the melody? The notes of the melody ...

Now 173 years old, The Musical Times is the world's oldest continuously publishing classical music journal. Based in the UK, it appears four times a year, usually in March, June, September and ...