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What do you think of the following two texts? Peter Schubert - Modal Counterpoint in the Renaissance Style - ISBN 978-0195331943 Peter Schubert - Baroque Counterpoint - ISBN 978-0131834422 B...
Hi everyone! I am studying this chord and its possible developments but I have many doubts, especially regarding the modulating possibilities that the chord presents, so maybe someone can cl...
Ligabue explains what "musical chords" are at minute 04:30 I ask, isn't he an Italian rocker? Has he been successful, fortunately? ...why can't he enjoy his billions, play, and shut up with...
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I am trying in my spare time to develop an algorithm for the creation of modulating sequences, i.e., to identify, given a starting key and an arrival key, one or more successions of chords t...
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Bianca
Hi everyone, I was reading about first species counterpoint in 2 parts from the preliminary exercises of Schoenberg's counterpoint.... now a doubt arises: all the examples he gives are ascen...
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Hello everyone, lately I have resumed studying harmony and I am also becoming interested in analyzing pieces from both a harmonic and melodic point of view; I am trying to analyze this piece...
Hi guys, does anyone know this text 'edito ricordi'?
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'Good evening everyone, inspired by a post from Red Scharlach some time ago in which he had linked the score of this chorale taken from the cantata, I decided to write it out as an exercise...
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DiesIrae
Are there treatises (in Italian) on counterpoint that are specialized in the Flemish style? I am asking because there is a lot regarding Palestrina-style counterpoint... but I am curious to...
I am taking inspiration from a question about the septichord. In your opinion, is there any utility in writing the polyphonic exercises of the composition course (I am referring to Imitated...
Could it be useful to learn how to read the staff notation (septachord/seven-line staff)? How useful? An effective method for learning? Thanks1000
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Piccinesco
I've been wondering for a while now if counterpoint is still a relevant topic. I am not referring to pedagogy, with its more or less shared duty to delve deeper into the subject, but specifi...
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Piccinesco
HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF “Time remembered” - Bill Evans – Part one - This is a first-level analysis, meaning the Modes listed are the most incoming ones. In the second part, I will list the outg...
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HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF “AUTUMN LEAVES” – J.Mercer Second part In the first part, I listed the most “ingoing” scales to play over the chords of the piece during improvisation. In the second par...
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I heard about it from a friend who is studying it, I searched a bit online and I couldn't quite focus on this technique (is it right to call it that...?). I seem to have understood that they...
Does anyone know specific texts that deal with the teaching of twentieth-century harmony? Thanks in advance
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http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/2732-armonia-funzionale-tonale-modale-modalecromatica-cromatica/
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HARMONIC ANALYSIS OF “AUTUMN LEAVES” - J.Mercer The indicated scales are the most "Ingoing". In the next article, for the same piece, I will indicate the more "outgoing" scales. A: A-7 / D7...
Hi everyone, I am struggling with the harmonic analysis of the piece in question. Could you help me analyze measures 5-6 and 10-12? Here is what I have written: 5) MEASURE 5 presence of A na...
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Third and leading tone affinities... let's talk about it. What are they? What am I to do with them? Are they necessary?
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While doing sight-singing, I noticed two main 'problems' that I have: 1 when I hear chords, I struggle to recognize the tonic. maybe I recognize the chord but I don't hear the bass note whic...
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http://www.maurograz...Acustica04.html The interval covered by a critical band is about 1/3 of an octave. Meanwhile, note that the tone and therefore also the semitone are always within the...
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I was analyzing the Schubert Lied in question, and I didn't understand a damn thing... if any kind soul would like to give me a hand. Thank you
Hello everyone, I have done my first harmonic analysis of a Bachian chorale.... I took the first one from the collection of harmonizations.... I have some perplexities which I have marked wi...
I was reading on the piston (see attachment) but I'm having trouble making sense of it... I had already opened a discussion about the third degree in the past http://www.pianoconc...il-terzo...
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AleGozzo
