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What is it called when the same melody is played at different speeds by voices with different timbre?
I'm imagining this situation:
A melody is played by a voice (by a "voice" I mean an instrument or an actual human voice).
The same melody or a very similar melody is played by another voice,...
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What is a negative harmony? [duplicate]
What is a negative harmony?
I've just stumbled upon this video and was quite puzzled by it. At first I thought it would be the tune simply reversed, that is, like what you get when you play it back in ...
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Loop pedal Vs. interface. Which is better for looping?
I am not a gear geek and wish to buy as little gear as possible.
I am now just starting to learn the guitar and am practicing with the electric guitar without an amp (and I think I will keep this way ...
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Is there a way to put a "niente" into Sibelius?
“Niente” (“Nothing”, usually written as an n or ø) is pretty much silence. In the piece I’m writing, I would like for the player to fade in and out of silence, using Niente. However, I can’t type the ...
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LilyPond: melody guideline over a page break produces overlapping staves
LilyPond produces strange, overlapping staves if a VoiceFollower crosses a page break. Consider the following code:
\version "2.24.3"
\language "italiano"
\paper {
#(set-paper-...
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LilyPond: help to merge notes in different voices, \omit Stem and \omit Flag don't help
I tried previously suggested solutions, and they didn't work. I am trying to merge noteheads to draw a melody guideline. In the code below I show them to demonstrate the effect, in the final version ...
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BWV 893, London or Altnickol version?
There are 2 versions of the B minor prelude from WTC 2, BWV 893 on IMSLP:
A. 'London version' which is in cut time.
B. 'Altnickol version' which is in 4/4, the note values diminutized proportionally, ...
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What's it called when harmony moves in the same intervals as the melody?
What's it called when the harmony moves in the exact same intervals as a melody, even if it is chromatic? Here's an example:
My apologies, I would do actual notation but I am not currently able to.
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Are there widely accepted names for 31edo modes?
I am looking for scales and modes in 31edo, and I found this page:
https://en.xen.wiki/w/31edo_modes
It's overall a nice library of scales. The issue is, the namings are too unique that I cannot find ...
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What makes a melody the “main melody” of a song?
A melody cannot exist with just one note, it requires 2 which implies that more change could be the biggest factor in making a melody the center of a composition. I am essentially making the ...
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Is all this modal theory for guitarists truly necessary?
A common strategy to learning to improvise is to learn modes. On quite a few different guitar sites (source), I've found a strategy presented that goes like this:
Learn all the modes in a parent key....
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Is 4th interval found at 3rd overtone?
I am reading an entry book titled Music Theory: From Beginner to Expert by Nicholas Carter.
He says that Perfect 4th is found at 3rd overtone at a frequency of Fundamental note + P5 + P4(which is a ...
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Why is 4th scale degree unstable?
4th scale degree is "perfect" and is found before Major 3rd in overtone series.
Then why is it considered "unstable"?
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How does pitch bending work on keyboard percussion
There is a less known technique for keyboard percussion that allows some form of pitch bending.
For example:
These are some way of getting it, but a similar effect is ...
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I'm blanking on a word regarding rhythmic interpretation (making 4/4 sound like 3/4 and vice versa)
I know it's not polyrhythm or anything along poly-whatever lines (I could be wrong, but nothing's ringing a bell) and the only results I'm getting are either like that or not related to my question to ...
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Can we shift the diatonic scale "one fifth" to the left?
The seven-note Pythagorean scale is obtain by completing the cycle of fifths until we get to the eighth fifth.
The diatonic scale is obtained by starting with the fourth and then running the cycle of ...
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How would I use a sound bank with a few notes to create a full range of notes?
I am looking to create a software in which a key from the keyboard would play a note. So I downloaded a sound bank and I was surprised when I noticed only a few notes were there.
Salamander Grand ...
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3:1 (or 1:3) interval, does it exist ? How to perform it from a C?
Given that a composed sound is composed of a fundamental frequency and its harmonics (multiples of the fundamental), we could easily image that a pitch (with a fundamenal frequency f) is played and ...
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Why is finding parent scale important in playing modes?
I am reading Nicholas Carter's Music Theory: From Beginner to Expert.
I am at the part where he explains altered Dominant chords provide easy access to parent melodic minor scale because if b9, #9, #...
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Are bells the only instrument whose second harmonic forms a minor interval with its fundamental?
I heard (from a Paccard church bells rep) that bells are the only instrument whose second harmonic forms a minor interval with its fundamental. Is this true?
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How would you name F#7 to G in C major?
How do you name what F#7 is to G in C major? I was thinking it may be V/iii/V but that seems complicated and inefficient.
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How to communicate well to parents of my music students [closed]
I have an introverted and a bit shy yet quirky young personality, but with my students I'm a confident private music teacher. However, with parents, I'm somewhat fearful to say the wrong thing. So I ...
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How to encourage & support my piano student who walked off the stage in frustration? [closed]
Last weekend was the recital for a music school near me. One of my students walked off the stage in frustration. She is a sweet teenager and is talented also.
I wonder what words can I use to ...
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Song structure in classical music vs EDM
I've been playing piano for a few of months, and of the couple of pieces I know, neither of them are particularly repetitive. I mean they definitely have repetition, but much less so than EDM (...
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Ottava markings - Should this 8va be 8vb?
Perusing the score of Charles E. Ives' Concord Sonata, in the 4th movement "Thoreau", p. 10, I noticed some ottava markings; in particular, "8va" above the treble clef, and another ...
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Sheet Music Software, w/ Measures/Bars per System Setting
For many years I was an "Encore" user, and alas, Encore is no longer supported. (Rumors of a new version persist, but... we'll see....) I used it to create piano sheet music.
Encore allowed ...
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Can a key signature express Phrygian mode (not just major or minor)?
Relative modes share the same note.
I was told the key signature could mean either major or minor.
But can it not also mean the other five modes like Phrygian, Locrian, etc.?
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What is this funky "window cleaning" sound referred to as? [closed]
Example of it in the opening of Persona 4 Dancing All Night's Opening
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ddXM6HX1PgU?start=30&end=45 (from 0:30 to 0:45)
Another somewhat example might be the Goron City ...
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`Score.skipTypesetting` and multi-measure rests
I want to produce a version of a score where a few bars are snipped off, using Score.skipTypesetting as in the following example:
cuts = {
s1
\set Score.skipTypesetting = ##t
s1*2
\set Score....
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How do you play a slur for the same note? [duplicate]
I am learning a new piece on piano and there's a slur between the same note like this:
Am I supposed to strike the key twice and use the sustain pedal in between?
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How Are The Four Bars Here Sequenced Down A Step?
I see first instance of the melody, and then the second one instance descending. But I'm not sure what the text means by sequencing down across 4 bars since the melody isn't descending across 4 bars.
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Question about dissonance handling and counterpoint
I'm self-learning 18th-century music theory because I like the music from that era. I'm obscure about the concepts of counterpoint and harmony. I'm aware that rules are not absolute within the 18th-...
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What is the definition of 909/808/707/etc. percussion?
I would think that these sounds would be the sounds made by the classic drum machines. But I see many samples advertised as being "909 kick" for example, and these may be different than ...
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How would I number my measures for my solo? [duplicate]
How would I number the the top line, since the first measure is basically 1/2 of a measure, would I still put 1? The measure or 2 after the 2-4 are half measure, but two half measure make one so would ...
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Why does it sound so weird? (Beethoven quartet)
Why does the first A# of the tetrachord of fugal development in op. 131, no. 7, m. 114 cello sound so weird? Is it because of the false relation with B?
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Could the bassist and the rhythm guitarist be the same person?
Could the function of the bassist and the rhythm guitarist be combined into one guitar player with a guitar like this for instance? Maybe just me playing this thing and a drummer and a regular ...
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How to improve upon my skills without feedback?
For context, I am learning Western Classical Guitar and vocals and Indian Bambi Flute, and yes, it is 'Bamboo,' I affectionately call it Bambi because of how adorable I think my flute is. I have been ...
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What is the name of this piece? [closed]
I recently came across a edit video of lang lang where he was playing a piece all thought he was not actually playing it because it was edited. I searched for it and found out its called RUNTAH MEDLEY ...
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Is live streaming music while learning/practicing a good idea? [closed]
I am learning Western Classical Guitar and Indian Bamboo Flute. I want to stream myself playing, connect with the community, and get some good feedback as well. Is it really a bad idea to live stream ...
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Vocal range of songs [closed]
I'm not aware that it's normal to include vocal ranges in songs' sheet music. The key and tempo are usually included, but, judging by the amount of 'what am I, tenor, baritone, etc' question on this ...
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What has scholarly research found about variations in live performances of the same songs by the same artists?
I am interested in the degree with which performances of the same songs by the same artists differ. In this regard, I wonder what scholarly research has found about such variations, and I especially ...
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Ableton routing MIDI file CC to synth parameter
I am fairly new to manipulate raw MIDI files, but I've had a couple of years of experience using Ableton.
I've been trying to generate some MIDI files using code (I'm using Julia with the MIDI.jl ...
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How do I place fingering instructions under a string's number?
I'm engraving a guitar score and I would like to notate the harmonic frets under the string number, as it is done in this example:
To do this, I'm using \string and -fingering notation as it appears ...
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Markups of Voice Two appearing on top of Voice One
I'm engraving a guitar score and I've made a simple shortcut for drawing a circle everytime a harmonic is played, as I've seen in some music:
hc = \markup \left-align { \draw-circle #0.3 #0.15 ##f }
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Are there fundamental problem how I'm fingering this fugue?
Part of my question about how I'm fingering this fugue is based on what I call "contraction" fingering. For example, with this passage...
...where I normally can finger it 1543 2432 1321 2. ...
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Fingering for left hand accompaniment over two octaves piano
I'd appreciate some help on how to finger the highlighted part.
The sheet came with a lot of fingerings, so it feels to me like I'm missing something very obvious about how this should be played. ...
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How not to sound midi without real instrument?
Everyone say to me that my music composition "sounds like old midi"
For example :
But... is it is possible to make a music without real instrument without ...
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What is the name of this music instrument? [closed]
I want to know which instrument is it for the music of raymans especially this
at the beggining, this who do the main melody ... a violin ? A midi synth in a computer ...
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Can i connect my P-45 Digital Piano to play keys on my computer?
Im trying to use my piano as input for buttons on my computer:)
I connected it to my PC with a USB-A to USB-B, and downloaded some software from yamaha (https://usa.yamaha.com/support/updates/...
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Using iv/x to tonicize a key?
Because V/x is so popular and useful, would iv/x have a good function as well? I’ve found that V and iv have very similar effects in terms of tension toward the tonic. Also, would V+/x be ...
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