Rickey Minor (above), who's moving from "Idol" to "Tonight," thinks Harry Connick Jr. should replace Simon Cowell as a judge on the Fox show. “Tonight Show” fans will see a “new” face Monday night, ...

This is our second story in our series on the characteristics of musical keys. We started with the “people’s key,” C major. From there it’s an easy skip to D, the root of today’s subject, the “saddest ...

"In Western music, there's nothing that says 'sad' like a minor key," explains the Exploratorium science museum. You don't have to be up on your music theory — or have synesthesia — to recognize when ...

Like everyone else who grew up during the heyday of the show and has since had to deal with countless reruns over the last 25 years, I have heard the Friends theme song roughly a billion times. I’m ...

This Apex dad creates minor key versions of Disney songs, popular hits on YouTube and it's kind of mind-blowing Chase Holfelder is just a local guy, raising two kids with his wife from their home in ...

It’s a mysterious thing. Why do songs sound happy or sad depending on whether they’re in a major or minor key? Mathematically the two are barely distinguishable. A song in C major uses the same notes ...

Each piece of music, be it a song, symphony or concerto, is written in a specific ‘key’. But what do we mean when we refer to a musical key, why are there 24 of them, and how do composers choose which ...