Ancient musical wisdom was that music was pleasing to the ear because of the 'right' frequencies and vibrations. But researchers from the University of Melbourne's School of Psychological Sciences ...

"Music creation is all about exploring the creative possibilities of a given set of qualities, for example, finding out what kinds of melodies can you play on a flute, or what kinds of sounds can you ...

Pythagoras (569-490 BC) established that the octave (the ratio 1:2 of a string's length) was the fundamental musical interval and saw it as a sign that nature itself, including the planetary orbits ...

In defence of Pythagoras, that he showed us music was based on harmonic intervals was a very impressive analysis with the primitive tools at his disposal. What is more, some of nature’s most wonderful ...

The Del Sol Quartet returns to Old First Concerts to host its 3rd annual festival--The Pacific Pythagorean Music Festival--highlighting the experimental innovators and traditional masters of ...

The most important theorem we learnt in childhood carries the name of a Greek philosopher, but not necessarily the legacy.

You might think that, with the triumph of digital technology, the era of the lone instrument inventor would be well and truly over. Not so. Tucked away in workshops and studios round the world there's ...