Scales are the building blocks of music. Think of it like this: if a piece of music or a song is a house, then the scales probably most closely resemble the walls. The ‘do re mi fa so la ti do’ ...

A chara, – I really enjoyed Rosita Boland's admission that music does nothing for her ("I have a confession to make – music does nothing for me", People, April 28th). There must be a scale of how ...

The mathematical rules for creating musical harmony may be more malleable than thought. Western music theory traditionally holds that chords sound most pleasant when they contain notes separated by ...