Music: Practice & Theory

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What is the length of piano keys, in inches
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Why are these 2 sharps ignored?
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What purpose do chords serve in music?
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What is a natural sharp? [duplicate]
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What conventions are used with accidentals and tied notes?
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Is there a device that would be a mixer with multiple outputs to jam with headphones?
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Isn't a tenuto marking redundant?
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How do I express humming in music notation?
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Is all this modal theory for guitarists truly necessary?
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How does pitch bending work on keyboard percussion
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Are bells the only instrument whose second harmonic forms a minor interval with its fundamental?
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What is the definition of 909/808/707/etc. percussion?
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When to let go of the sustain pedal?
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How not to sound midi without real instrument?
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What's the purpose of a sound post?
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Why is the key typically the first and/or last note (or chord) of a song?
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Is it called a double stop if you play the same note on two different strings?
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Learn music with odd rhythms
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Unknown notation: square brackets, triangles, and numbers
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Brass instruments with bells _behind_ the player
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Adding accidentals that are already expressed by the key signature
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Notating half notes across beat 3 in 4/4
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Colon next to a flat in cello score
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Does the bass note in a "slash" chord really have an associated interval?
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Black and white keyboard keys
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Who were Anonymous I-III? Was there an Anonymous V?
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Why are the black keys on some ancient fortepianos now white on modern pianos?
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In electronic music, what makes "bass" bass?
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"Depression" sensation after the beat, in electronic music
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Why is the scale of Hotel California B-min but not F#-phrygian?
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Parallel octaves vs doubled octaves
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What are these slashed noteheads?
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How can I verify the accuracy of music scores?
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With modes, is 'tonic' still the appropriate term for naming the first note of the scale?
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Why does tab have CGCGCE instead of normal EADGBE?
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Are copyright traps in musical scores a thing?
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What happened to Jazz in 1980?
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Accidental in parenthesis (not courtesy)
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What, if anything, is known about Bach's interpretation of, or emphasis on, meter?
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What is the limit to which humans can precisely time notes on an instrument or perceive notes as precisely timed?
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Are whole notes/rests really used to signify variable lengths of time?
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Lilypond: Is there a way to create a song with just lyrics and chords? Without the notes
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Lilypond: define macros / templates to avoid code repetition
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D major with no C tone
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Piano mordent with two notes
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Bach BWV 812 Menuet I: do(can) ornaments presage the accidental?
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How to apply Paul Hindemith's harmonic theory
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Dot in front of a mordent
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Alto clef makes so much sense; why isn't it used more often
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When we play the C mixolydian mode, are we still in the key of C?
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Best way to indicate L.H over in piano
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Why does this piece in 3/4 have 3 crotchet beats in the last bar despite starting with an anacrusis?
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To what extent does musical notation constrain human musical creation?
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Does natural amplification TRULY exist in acoustics or does it have to be turned into an electrical signal first?
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ATCL programme notes : what do I need to include?
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Orchestral score has inconsistent time signature changes and note lengths
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Why does this version of Für Elise have d# then e both with treble clefs?
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Is it Bad Technique to Use One Finger for Two Keys in Sequence?
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How can I learn timing from a guitar tab?
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