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Most music is written in one of the twelve major scales, and the Major scale has a pragmatically-central position in a (western) musician...

Regular readers will remember that about ten or so months ago I was having pains in my right shoulder and arm. I thought this was caused by ...

(This is the first of two slightly dry posts on naming conventions.) The intervals of European Equal Temperament scales are defined by cou...

(We are now working in European Equal Temperament.) A scale is any sequence of intervals (notice: not notes) that adds up to 12 semitones...

This is the first of a series of posts about music notation and associated ideas. The world does not need this, but I do, to make my own sen...

One of the many skills academically-trained musicians have is being able to identify an interval - the distance between two notes. There are...

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