The pop and rock mavericks who have used microtonal music in unexpected and glorious ways. It is universally agreed that there are 12 notes in Western music. And generally 88 of these are represented ...

the notes of the standard chromatic scale. While a modern pop listener may not be aware of the sonic echoes that resonate across the centuries, pop music has always acknowledged a great harmonic ...

But the simplification of popular melodies doesn’t necessarily indicate a lack of complexity in popular music as a whole ... Savage also notes that an analysis of melody cannot fully describe ...