For singers and their audiences, being 'in tune' might not be as important as we think. The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of ...

The basic definition of a scale is a set of musical notes arranged in order. Most people are familiar with the C major scale as being the one where you start at middle C on the piano and just play all ...

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 ...