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Tom Service considers what can be done with the semitone. Tom talks to mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly about the tragic falling semitones of Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. Show more Tom Service ...

Tom Service considers the semitone. Music's most fundamental building block, it can mean sorrow when it falls, triumph when it rises, but also provoke fear (as in the theme from Jaws). It can become a ...

What are microtones, and why are they not an everyday part of classical music? We explore the history and mysteries of the ‘notes in between the notes’. Music is broadly defined as humanly-organised ...

The times when pop music gave us the most epic, and emotionally satisfying key changes. Here are ten of the very best. Over centuries of music, composers have used modulations and changes in the key ...