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Why are some musical chords so inherently pleasing while others sound so obviously dissonant? A study of a group of people with the genetic condition amusia, which causes sufferers to incorrectly ...

There’s no such thing as a nasty-sounding chord: it all depends on what you’re used to. That’s the suggestion from a study of more than 160 people from the US and Bolivia, which found that people may ...

What is it about Jimi Hendrix that so many people find appealing? According to scientists at UCLA, it’s all in the music – or rather, the dissonance in that music: the unexpected, jarring, almost ...

When we combine harmonious intervals to create chords, there are various conventions we follow (consciously or otherwise) to avoid unpleasant dissonances. Here, we're going to do no such thing! We ...