The musician wren is aptly-named, because these birds use the same intervals in their songs that are heard as consonant in many human cultures. This is a what composer and musicologist and a biologist ...

IN a series of communications to the Académie des Sciences (February 8 and 22, 1869, July 17,1871, and January 29, 1872), M. Cornu and I have shown that musical impressions are based upon several ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...