Last October, Wang Wu, a 58-year-old Hong Kong housewife, had a stroke. A few weeks earlier, US investment bank Lehman Brothers had collapsed, taking US$90,000 of the Wang family's life savings down ...

This awesome musician proves there are more than just eight notes in an octave. In Western tonal music, we generally say a full major or minor scale is made up of eight notes (although there can be up ...

Investors who bought complex investment products - called Octave Notes - linked to Lehman Brothers have accused the government of offering them no help since the collapse of the US investment bank on ...

Previous correspondence on this topic refers to the different patterns of overtones that enable us to distinguish one instrument from another. This isn’t the only factor involved. Many years ago when ...

“Beauty in music,” wrote the composer Charles Ives, “is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair.” Ezra Sims, a pioneering Boston-based composer, did more than ...

Our experience of musical intervals and the uncanny “sameness” of octaves is encoded in our neuroanatomy. The neuroscience of music is rich, complex and not without controversy. But some things are ...