Last October, Wang Wu, a 58-year-old Hong Kong housewife, had a stroke. A few weeks earlier, US investment bank Lehman Brothers had collapsed, taking US$90,000 of the Wang family's life savings down ...

This awesome musician proves there are more than just eight notes in an octave. In Western tonal music, we generally say a full major or minor scale is made up of eight notes (although there can be up ...

Investors who claimed to have been misled by banks into buying Octave Notes, a high-risk, complex investment product, have criticised the banking watchdog for failing to act to protect their interests ...

Music theory is a hot topic of debate amongst modern producers because it’s arguably not as integral to music production as it once was. However, it definitely still holds a rightful place and can ...

Previous correspondence on this topic refers to the different patterns of overtones that enable us to distinguish one instrument from another. This isn’t the only factor involved. Many years ago when ...

“Beauty in music,” wrote the composer Charles Ives, “is too often confused with something that lets the ears lie back in an easy chair.” Ezra Sims, a pioneering Boston-based composer, did more than ...