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'round thesaurus of scales by nicolas slonimsky

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hi everyone!

i don't know if it has been noticed from my recent posts... but I have started studying jazz harmony (on my own) and I am really enjoying it!!! in tiny little steps, my very meager and mediocre jazz is evolving... at least I think so! ;-D

not being exactly a newcomer but having a certain awareness of the study and the effort required for the sake of art, I know well that one does not become a jazz musician by reading a couple of books.

i purchased those 2-3 cult texts as a theoretical reference point (the various Mark Levine and Jim Grantham, to be specific) and, in more than one page, this so-called text (post title) has been repeatedly mentioned.

do you know it? what do you think? what is it about?

in eager anticipation of your guidance

good music and have a good evening

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I am asking a favor of those interested in the subject...

on the internet, in the public domain, I found the .pdf file of the Thesaurus:

http://www.lapetitedistribution.org/archive/Nicolas_Slonimsky.pdf

there is very little theoretical writing, just the first few pages; but they are so dense with content (in English) that, to understand something, I translated it into Italian, or at least I tried! I am not totally sure about how much was translated.

so, I am sharing my translation file in this post... in case it could be useful to someone else and if, above all, someone more far-sighted than me in the Anglo-Saxon language would/could take a look at the translation and eventually correct my very likely blunders so as to make such a translation completely usable.

thanks

http://www.lapetitedistribution.org/archive/Nicolas_Slonimsky.pdf
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