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For questions about how music works, seeking to identify structures and patterns in music. Used to indicate questions about musical concepts and structures, as opposed to techniques and execution.

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Learn to sing, how can I improve my singing?

The pitch is very inaccurate here. Even without knowing the song I can tell it's out of tune because the intervals you're singing are all over the place. But I listened to the song to give you precise …
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Rostropovich's description of the intrinsic "feeling" of the different musical keys

Yes there is, though it's old. Check out this link: https://www.wmich.edu/mus-theo/courses/keys.html. It contains a translation of Christian Schubart's "Ideen zu einer Aesthetik der Tonkunst (1806)". …
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What are the stipulations for a twelve-tone row to create a matrix with two consistent diago...

This is a very interesting question and ended up being a fun maths puzzle to solve. I solved numerically and found 3840 matrices which satisfy this condition. Here is one of them: Pat Muchmore pret …
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Do Lydian and Locrian Pentantonic Scales Exist?

As far as I am aware, there are two ways to construct the five modes of the pentatonic scale. The first is to go to the major diatonic, remove the fourth and seventh scale degrees (as these are a tri …
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If someone can sing a melody, why can they not also recognize the intervals within that melody?

I wondered the same thing! I still can't recognise isolated major thirds and minor thirds well, but I can sing them accurately. I don't know the answer for certain, but maybe these anecdotes can help …
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