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Fascinating, I've never heard of this manuscript. Sounds like an interesting document.

Interesting. I just skimmed the thread, so forgive my intrusion.

I recently finished Anna Maria Busse Berger's Medieval Music and the Art of Memory, in which the author spends a lot of time...

Pick some exercises to work on right hand and left hand technique, and learn a bunch of tunes. I have gotten a lot of mileage out of ABC notation databases.

http://abcnotation.com/...

Yes, you keep track of how many bars and what the progression is. Ideally, everybody should be doing that, but it is easy to get lost while soliong. It might be a good idea to collectively work on...

I encourage you to have a look at http://thesession.org/.

A diminished seventh is an augmented second away from the root of the chord.

G#°7 = G# B D F

F# to G# is a major second, F to G# is a half-step larger and therefore is an augmented second.

I like to listen to and analyze music that uses something that I'm researching, so that I can hear what other people do with it.

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ABC notation (use...

^ Hm. The "diminished" pattern he's playing is G# A B D E F. That's A harmonic minor (A B C D E F G#), nothing to do with the diminished scale (A B C D E♭ F F# G#). If that had been E♭ (or if the A...

Use the lessons and ear training utilities on this website:

www.musictheory.net

Read this document:

http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/pdf/complete.pdf

Practice.

Possibly this?
http://www.amazon.com/JetSlide-Guitar-Slide-Steel-8/dp/B003R6WRY6/

I'm only doing the diatonic thirds of the A harmonic minor scale. Every note in that sequence has but one name. If we continued, it would repeat all over again.

A C E G# B D F A C E G# B D F
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Good advice to all of us!



I don't know, I think it's a matter of how you conceive of the interval. After all, it's a succession of thirds. I find it easier in my mind to think of all seventh...

Yeah, it's a typo. E♭7 is E♭ G B♭ D♭. Major triad, minor seventh.

And sevenths should absolutely be written into the symbol if the chord is meant to have a seventh. The exception is in extended...

I don't see the point of this exercise. Throw some chord symbols at me if you want to quiz me. Otherwise, the only things I will be able to provide are those I already have an answer for. Do you want...

But we don't say "Dmaj7(♭7, ♭3)" for D F A C.



If they were added chord members, I would indicate them as such with with an "add" particle. As long as I've been in music, I've always seen...

I'm not sure what you mean. Strictly speaking, I consider key and mode to be exclusive pieces of information. "Key of D" only means to me that D is the tonic note. After that, I tack on the modal...

When we talk about minor keys in Western music, we typically bring up the natural minor scale, as well as the harmonic and melodic minor. Let's do these in the key of A.



A natural minor: A B...

I see some misconceptions in this thread about how chords are constructed, and more importantly their relationship to each other. Harmony in Western music is derived from the major scale. Let's take...

You're going to make a lot of work for yourself if you follow those chord books (or even the mug) too extensively. And there are many, many chords out there. I can't tell you how many there are,...

Thanks for the heads up, joemcg. Sounds like a fun exhibit and a good museum in general.

Thanks for this.

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Coreection to my post: that whole tone scale should be C D E F# G# B♭.

I've found that a good resource for transcriptions is the ABC website. At least you get options and can see how other people interpret the tune. Here's a setting of Tuttle's:...

I find that the most sensible way to think of these things is key + mode. In other words, the key is the tonic of the scale, or the note that the scale starts on. That information is separate from...