In the event the jury gets it wrong and overlooks the requirement that the plaintiff must prove that its use of the descending chromatic scale in its song “Taurus” was sufficiently original to ...

During the trial, music experts said in court that the opening rift of “Taurus,” described as a “descending chromatic scale,” is routinely used in mainstream music—so common it doesn ...

"Randy Wolfe did not create the descending chromatic scale," Mr Anderson told jurors. He told the jury the descending chromatic scale played by Page in the first moments of Stairway was a musical ...