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Church modes exists in music as a means of creating melodies and harmonies that dont use the major and minor scales. Major and minor scales … Read more

The pentatonic scale is a musical scale that contains only five note. The pentatonic scale is useful because it remove the two notes that create … Read more

Exotic scale fall outside of the realm of major and minor scale that musicians learn in their earliest years. These scale contain interval that are … Read more

The melodic minor scale can behave in two differently ways depending on the genre of music that a person is creating: classical music or jazz … Read more

A composer often want to move from one key to another. However, a composer dont want teh music to sounding like it belongs to a … Read more

The leading tone is an specific note within a musical scale. This particular note is important in tonal music because the leading tone help the … Read more

The mediant is a chord that exist in the third degree of a scale, and it allow composers to change the sound of a progression … Read more

Parallel keys uses scales that have the same tonic note, but they change the scale degree surrounding that tonic note. Composers use the concept of … Read more

Pitch class set theory exist within a twelve-tone universe and utilizes the pitch class clock to display each of the twelve position on the clock … Read more

When you write a musical part for a clarinet or a horn, you must understands the key signature for the music. The key signature will … Read more

Key signatures is groups of sharps or flats. The purpose of the key signature are to tell the musician which note are to be played … Read more

A diatonic chord are a chord that uses the notes from a specific scale. When composing music, musicians must use notes from the scale for … Read more

Tone rows is central to twelve-tone music due to the fact that tone rows provides composers with an ordered set of twelve pitch class. These … Read more

Music theory students often encounter confusion when they first learn about interval class in music theory students studies. An interval class refer to the distance … Read more