Western ears consider a pitch at double the frequency of a lower pitch to be the same note, an octave higher. The Tsimane’, an indigenous people in the Bolivian Amazon basin, do not.

For example, an 88-key piano represents seven cycles of the chromatic scale, plus four extra notes. The interval between one note and its counterpart in the next cycle is called an octave.

People’s perception of a musical note as happy or sad is not universal but could be influenced by their culture, according to a new study. The research, published on Thursday in the journal PLoS ...

There's no bashful singing to it," said Stanley Smith of Ozark, who's been singing shape-note music for more than 40 years now. He also is a composer, with several songs in one of the books used ...

[Stanislaw Pusep] has gifted us with the Pianolizer project – an easy-to-use toolkit for music exploration and visualization, an audio spectrum analyzer helping you turn sounds into piano not… ...