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Perfect pitch before musical training

Piano fingering for basic triads in B flat major

Can the harmonic series explain the origin of the major scale?

Is analyzing this passage as an expansion of a sequential phrase reasonable?

Jazz walking bass for C to E7 (I to V7/vi)

Rhythm notation syncopation over the third beat

How to complete a scale harmonization using Quantz' Versuch

Is there a name for this kind of guitar chord - not open, no barre, strings dampened?

What tone to play for an upper neighbor in jazz?

Changing position (on piano) with fifth finger

Technically “contrasting” keys for sax and trumpet

In Medieval music theory was the symmetry of dorian mode considered a kind of tonal fundamental?

Is the “Charlie Parker Cycle” described in this document a “traditional” method?

Harmonizing the bebop major (diminished sixth) scale - Barry Harris

Block chord style and appoggiaturas

What are the modal characteristics of major modes?

Are there any typical, practical applications of negative harmony?

how high to position the snare drum?

Are rootless jazz chords truly rootless?

Do major seventh chord usually put the major seventh above the root?

Are pianissimo passages for solo piano “enhanced” through recording engineering?

Is this cross relationship of the seventh degree in minor key harmony OK for 18th century style?

How to define “simple” when considering consonance and interval ratios

Does this sharp under the chord mean to play a major chord?

Why does compression seem to improve the fidelity of recording?

How is a clausula tertiaria/medians distinguished from a modulation to the relative major?

In what way is music considered to be in a mode when accidentals seemingly contradict the mode?

Two pitches on one distorted electric guitar versus the two pitches on separate distorted guitars

Jazz enclosures for minor iim7b5 V7alt im6

Fux's Third Species (two part) melodic movement - except for cambiata movement to and from dissonance only by step?