EVERY one who cares for art, who likes to read discussions of art, must often have felt how fascinating, and yet how generally misleading, are the analogies which writers love to make between art and ...

Minor-key melodies, trap hi-hats and rich bass spilled onto the street from the Majestic’s neon facade. The line inching toward the entrance was saturated with sloppily intoxicated millennials, time ...

Why does the music that to some people is lovely, even transcendent, sound to others like a lot of noise? Researchers at the University of Melbourne attribute to the amount of pleasure we take in ...

A new theory suggests a natural basis for our preference for musical consonance. But does such a preference exist at all, wonders Philip Ball. What was avant-garde yesterday is often blandly ...

Neural correlates of the often-powerful emotional responses to music are poorly understood. Here we used positron emission tomography to examine cerebral blood flow (CBF) changes related to affective ...

The 21st is the second century for music conservatories and contemporary concert composers to put forth the notion that atonal music is preferable to the tonal music that defined western civilization ...

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When you develop cancer, the disease creates a musical dissonance in the functioning of your genes. That’s the strange finding of Harvard researcher Gil Alterovitz who used the activity of genes over ...

For years, scientists and philosophers have sought to determine the purpose of music in human life. Kant thought it was essentially useless. "[I]f music confers no survival advantage, where does it ...

Vivek Maddala is an Emmy-winning composer and a regular participant in The Number Ones Comment Section. After reading his takes on the music theory behind several historic hits, we invited him to turn ...