From the dauntingly deadly Jaws theme, to the creepy choral cacophony of Squid Game, we explore why the interval of a semitone sounds so sinister. A semitone is the smallest interval used in Western ...

When we combine harmonious intervals to create chords, there are various conventions we follow (consciously or otherwise) to avoid unpleasant dissonances. Here, we’re going to do no such thing!

A number of movements developed their own harmonic languages: As well as creating extreme dissonances, some composers wrote music that included microtones - intervals smaller than a semitone.