Composers added chromatic notes to their chords and melodies to make their music more expressive. In the slow movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the opening flute melody ...

A cadence is formed by two chords at the end of a passage of music. Sometimes the final cadence of a piece in a minor key ends with a major chord instead of the expected minor. This effect is ...

These chords are used on everything from The Beatles to Billie Eilish, and every genre of music that adopts any form of basic harmony.

Triads are made of three intervals: the root, 3rd, and 5th. This three-note formula creates the backbone of musical harmony across all genres of Western music. Even the most complex jazz chords ...

literally puts you in harmony with the world. The great secret of choirs is that if you put enough voices together, they can’t help but sound good. All the off notes get absorbed by the true ones.

Harmony Project creative director David Brown says the goal is to create a network of artists who believe in the power of ...