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Disconnected

Phones are in F. They ring F’s, they drone dial tones in F Major Thirds, and the buttons beep in F Minor. Many other related phone melodies are also in F Major, such as the classic “Disconnected”. This little melody is a Bb Major Seventh, the fourth degree of an F Major scale. Click on [...]

Synaesthesia

Did you know some crazy folks out there have actually seen Music? They’re called synesthetes, and often experience what is known as colored hearing, or “Sound → Color Synesthesia”. What do these synesthetes say that Music looks like? Well, no two synesthetes ever agree on tone (especially the musicians), but mostly it looks exactly how [...]