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 ...

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 ...

When two notes are an octave apart, one has double the frequency of the other yet we perceive them as being the same note – a “C” for example. Why is this? Readers give their take This question has a ...

Investors who claimed to have been misled by banks into buying Octave Notes, a high-risk, complex investment product, have criticised the banking watchdog for failing to act to protect their interests ...

There can be little doubt that understanding how music works can help you to make better music; or, at the very least, make things easier when you’re at the composing stage of your project. Here, we ...