Still to this day we don’t understand exactly why certain sounds are more pleasing then others. What happens beyond the physical level is still not entirely understood. This investigation aims to gain an insight as to how our minds process auditory information and why some sounds sound better than others. I will first explore Galileo’s coincidence (or pulse) theory of consonance. He claimed consonances are pairs of tones that strike

Many people have tried to answer this question in several different ways – some dealing with physics of sound and the overtone series, others with the history of keyboard instruments and tuning theory and even some dealing with the resonance of the universe whatever that means… What I plan to do is not to give you a short but complete answer to the question, but rather outline some of the