In an investigation of interactions between scales and intervals in music cognition, melodic intervals were judged in three preceding-scale contexts: diatonic, chromatic, and no scale. Musically less ...

Short musical fragments consisting of a melody part and a synchronous bass part were mistuned in various ways and in various degrees. Mistuning was applied to the harmonic intervals between ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images The Melodic Minor scale was used by Paul McCartney the ...

If we were to say the word ‘interval’ to you, what would your first thought be? The theatre? Ice cream? (With you on that one.) The basic dictionary definition of the word interval is a gap or space ...