What is it about Jimi Hendrix that so many people find appealing? According to scientists at UCLA, it’s all in the music – or rather, the dissonance in that music: the unexpected, jarring, almost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black Sabbath performs during their Heaven and Hell tour in 1980. The band helped revive the long-feared “Devil’s interval”—a ...

Why are some musical chords so inherently pleasing while others sound so obviously dissonant? A study of a group of people with the genetic condition amusia, which causes sufferers to incorrectly ...