Using fewer notes changes how melodies are written. Focus shifts to rhythm, phrasing, and repetition. Four notes can create ...

It took Alma Deutscher just four notes and 40 seconds to improvise an impressive short piano sonata right before 60 Minutes cameras. That alone is remarkable -- but she was also just 12 years old. But ...

The diatonic phrygian tetrachord - just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Well, maybe you're not familiar with this expression. It's actually a sequence of four musical notes. But I can pretty much ...

Eddie Ludema performed "Taps" at many SALUTE! concerts in Columbus over the past decade. Submitted photo It’s composed of only four different notes, performed in a prescribed rhythm in military ...

“Le Jardin Féerique,” usually translated as the enchanted or fairy garden, barely breathes into life as the apotheosis of the childhood stories that Ravel gathered under the title “Ma Mère l’Oye,” or ...

It’s often been said that pop music is formulaic — or, more recently algorithmic, because the zeitgeist — but when a Twitter user posted a video of himself playing songs from The Weeknd on a ...

Who’d have guessed that a one-time performance in 2013 would lead to the creation of The Four C Notes? “I was asked by a local bride if I could create a 30 minute Frankie Valli tribute for her wedding ...