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Harmony: Chords and How to Build Them

Updated March 2, 2024 | Published March 8, 2021 by M

How harmony works in western music. Traids formed out of scales, common harmonic progressions, nature of modulation. Listening skills for determining regular or irregular change rates. Wide variety of examples. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxf8mHkxgoA Harmony in music refers to the combination of different musical elements, such as chords, melodies, and rhythms, to create a pleasing and coherent … Read more

Music Theory and White Supremacy – “Music Theory and The White Racial Frame” Dr. Ewell

Updated February 28, 2024 | Published May 8, 2022 by M

Original article — https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.2/mto.20.26.2.ewell.html “Music theory can be seen as a racial ideology in which the views and ideas of white persons are held to be more significant than the views and ideas of nonwhites.” Excellent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr3quGh7pJA Dr. Philip Ewell, a music theorist and scholar, has gained attention for his discussions on race and … Read more

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This website largely concerns vibrations, oscillations, energies — vibratory anything — with life, physics, science, music in primary focus, plus oddball tidbits mixed-in for flavor and zest.

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.” – Ben Franklin

All is inseparably connected via vibration. Per scripture, sound was the beginning: If “God is two octaves above man,” but ‘silence is golden,’ doesn’t that leave us somewhere between precious and divine? We should live up to that.