Composers often speak of fitting chords and melodies together, as though sounds were physical objects with geometric shape -- and now a Princeton University musician has shown that advanced geometry ...

Learn how to solve problems with chords. A chord is a line that has its two endpoints on the circle. A chord passing through the center of the circle is refered to as the diameter of the circle. A ...

The opening chord of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (in the third bar of the score pictured) caused quite a stir when the opera was premièred in 1865. The daring combination of tone intervals — ...