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 ...

You don’t need to be able to read sheet music to be a musical genius. It can’t hurt, but if the long list of influential musicians who couldn’t read a note of music is anything to go by, it’s not ...

Play a note, any note — on your piano, your harp, your synthesizer, your kazoo. University of Delaware junior David Krall can tell you exactly which note you’re playing and which octave it lives in.