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What is the difference between a mode and a scale?

Is there any way to find a key of song somehow mathematically/algorithmically?

Difference between "Bar" and "Measure"

Classical music theory notation for chord inversions (figured bass)

What does a straight line connecting notes on different clefs mean?

What determines a chord's name?

What are modes in the real world?

Are there any MIDI extensions that allow quarter tones?

What does it mean to be able to write a fugue?

avoiding thirds at lower frequencies

What are "horn 5ths"?

When playing in a minor key, will the chords be minor as well?

Why does C9 sound so good resolving to D major 7

How do I correctly borrow chords from one key to another?

Is it best to use a tie when using 8th notes off the beat?

How would you notate a non-accent?

What is the method to figure out the key of a song?

Why do the examples in Fux's Gradus Ad Parnassum contain a G clef immediately after a C clef?

How to Write A Fugue

What are the diatonic extended chords of C major?

Double thirds, fourths, fifths and sixths piano fingering?

What piano chords should I memorize?

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What keys contain both E and Am and is there an easy trick to determine this?

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