The tone and tuning of musical instruments has the power to manipulate our appreciation of harmony, new research shows. The findings challenge centuries of Western music theory and encourage greater ...

Philosopher Bertrand Russell believed that the way we understand our world fundamentally shapes the way that we live our lives. Thus, an anarchist lives a very different sort of life than, say, an ...

Starting with the ancient Greeks, Western culture has kept up a heated relationship with the ethereal architecture of music, which taunted thinkers drawn to its otherworldly marriage of the intangible ...

"Pythagoras was wrong: there are no universal musical harmonies, new study finds." ScienceDaily. www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 02 / 240227130746.htm (accessed April 5, 2026).

Dyadic consonance for harmonic complex tones (Study 1A, N = 198 participants). Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45812-z Dyadic consonance for harmonic complex tones (Study ...