From the octave leap in Harold Arlen’s beloved ‘Over the Rainbow’, to that irresistible Bernstein tritone in ‘Maria’ from West Side Story, we celebrate the very best intervals found in the whole ...

Have you ever looked at a piano keyboard and wondered why the notes of an octave were divided up into seven white keys and five black ones? After all, the sounds that lie between one C and another ...

What are microtones, and why are they not an everyday part of classical music? We explore the history and mysteries of the ‘notes in between the notes’. Music is broadly defined as humanly-organised ...