Wind Chimes

A musical palindrome, the quartal scale is based on intervals of fourths and fifths. It's smooth and serene sound captivated american composers, notably aaron copland and paul hindemith, in the early...

One of Music Of The Spheres most popular tunings, the major Pentatonic scale is the most widely used melodic scale in the world, dating from ancient Greece. It's pattern is familiar as the black...

Claude Debussy, inspired by Balinese music at the 1896 Paris Exposition, began composing with this atonal scale, used for example in his piece "La Mer" Later, television's original Star Trek used it...