A scale is a series of notes that have a relationship with one another, in how their acoustic frequencies interact. The scale you use in a composition can create a sense of harmony, or tension.

You don't need to be a music theory expert to make electronic music, but it helps - here's our guide to the basics Piano basics: the black notes - what are they for and how do you use them? The ...

Piano basics: the black notes - what are they for and how do you use them? We can extract the notes that we require to create our triad based on C major, beginning with the note which we call the ...

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 ...

The acoustic qualities of instruments may have influenced variations in musical scales and preferred harmonies.

The fact that singers fail to consistently hit the right notes may have implications for the development of musical scales as well.

The songs of some birds really do contain musical notes and intervals similar to those found in human music, a new study has found.