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Published online 13 June 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.883
Column: Muse
A sound theory?
A new theory suggests a natural basis for our preference for musical consonance. But does such a preference exist at all, wonders Philip Ball.
What was avant-garde yesterday is often blandly mainstream today. But this normalization doesn’t seem to have happened to experiments in atonalism in Western music.
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