Magic

One way to achieve a big emotional reaction from an audience is to repeat the same refrain over and over, building up and up until every frequency is filled and there's nowhere left to go. Here's to the anthemic chorus.

Sometimes you're listening to a piece of music and something in the melody just stops you in your tracks. Here are some melodic phrases that did that to me.

Timbre is the tonal quality of a sound. Some instruments have a naturally wonderful timbre and we had a listen.