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When using “Evans” jazz voicings what voicings should I use for half-diminished ii chord in minor and tritone substitution chords?

Is the beaming of this score following a vocal practice or it is just outdated and obscuring the beat?

Why is Erik Satie's Saraband 1 in A flat major?

How to write Roman numeral figures for non-chord tones (NCT) and inversions, triads and seventh chords?

Piano fingering for chromatic fifths, is a fifth too wide for fingering 2-4?

Are pTrumpets difficult to play compared to real brass trumpets?

Is practicing seventh chords ascending/descending chromatically effective?

Should sensible analysis show secondary functions fulfilling the supposed function?

Are there musical terms like linguistic terms n-gram or uni-gram and bi-gram?

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

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

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

What are the modal characteristics of major modes?

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

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

What is the difference between a short fugue and a versette?

I wrote two alternate fugue expositions for one subject does either follow good harmonic conventions?

Is this generic cadence chart from Kostka/Payne generally accepted?

Are these upper voices in this final passage from Handel a bona fide F7 chord or some kind of non-chord tones?

Is there a standard set of diatonic ninth chords in jazz?

Is the half-diminished seventh chord more commonly found as iiø7 in minor than viiø7 in major in common practice harmony?

Is the melodic minor scale use as the basis of chord progressions in modern jazz?

Are there any abbreviation marks to indicate a chord sequence?

Is the typical use of the N6 Neapolitan chord to lead to a perfect cadence rather than a half cadence?

Is there really a 6/8 meter with jazz swing?

Is the history of scales in Cooke's “Mastering Scales” an accurate history?

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

Changing position (on piano) with fifth finger

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

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