Ancient musical wisdom was that music was pleasing to the ear because of the 'right' frequencies and vibrations. But researchers from the University of Melbourne's School of Psychological Sciences ...

Amid North American concert dates, composer reflects on large-ensemble guitar opuses, influences and how new album fits into his overall catalog Composer Rhys Chatham made his name by mixing ...

In defence of Pythagoras, that he showed us music was based on harmonic intervals was a very impressive analysis with the primitive tools at his disposal. What is more, some of nature’s most wonderful ...

Pythagoras (569-490 BC) established that the octave (the ratio 1:2 of a string's length) was the fundamental musical interval and saw it as a sign that nature itself, including the planetary orbits ...

The Del Sol Quartet returns to Old First Concerts to host its 3rd annual festival--The Pacific Pythagorean Music Festival--highlighting the experimental innovators and traditional masters of ...

Julian Baggini's report this week, on the 12-note scales and assorted musico-mathematical symbology recently discovered in Plato's manuscripts, was fascinating. If historian Jay Kennedy is right, ...