The ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras proposed a mathematical argument for what music sounds best to the ear: According to legend, he said listeners preferred music with chords adhering to perfect ...

A lot of experimental music in the last 100 years of Western classical music has been quite hard for listeners because it involves highly abstract structures that are hard to enjoy. In contrast, ...

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 ...