This is usually the first scale we learn, but there are different types of scale, each with their own individual sound, some containing different numbers of notes. They sound so different due to the ...

74. Musical Scales Mimic the Sound of Language The harmonics of human vocalization may generate the frequencies used in music.

A large-scale study from the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota finds no evidence for a long-believed association between musical training and enhanced neural processing of sounds ...

Musical intervals reflect the sounds of our own speech, and are hidden in the vowels we use. Musical scales just sound right because they match the frequency ratios that our brains are primed to ...

Dr Vicky Williamson is a lecturer in Music Psychology at Goldsmiths University. You can read her previous post in the Science Of Music series here Most of the time, when all else is held constant ...

It's the thing you have to learn when studying an instrument. In fact it's the bane of many a music student's life! But the scale is one of the fundamental concepts in music.

If the ears were tuned to the difference of a third or a fifth in the musical scale, harmony, of course, would be produced, but not to a second, such as between A and G.—EDS.