According to the Ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras, 'consonance'—a pleasant-sounding combination of notes—is produced by special relationships between simple numbers such as 3 and 4. More recently, ...

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 ...

A lot of experimental music in the last 100 years of Western classical music has been quite hard for listeners because it involves highly abstract structures that are hard to enjoy. In contrast, ...