In an investigation of interactions between scales and intervals in music cognition, melodic intervals were judged in three preceding-scale contexts: diatonic, chromatic, and no scale. Musically less ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to my first Guitar World column! I’d like to start off with an essential element of musical understanding, which is the knowledge of intervals. To illustrate, I’ll cite a ...

Short musical fragments consisting of a melody part and a synchronous bass part were mistuned in various ways and in various degrees. Mistuning was applied to the harmonic intervals between ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images The Melodic Minor scale was used by Paul McCartney the ...

This article originally appeared at the Patterning. This week, the Lonely Island released a music video for a song that was cut from their new movie, Popstar. The deleted scene for the song, “Fuck Off ...

To his fans across the country–and they are numerous–Chicagoan Orbert Davis stands as one of the most accomplished jazz trumpeters performing today. But in recent years, Davis has pushed beyond the ...

Many musical cultures choose scales that establish simple frequency ratios (2:1, 3:2, 4:3) between notes. It is commonly believed that this choice is solely explained by the intention to maximize the ...