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List of pieces using polytonality and/or bitonality.. Samuel Barber. Symphony No. 2 (1944) [citation needed]; Béla Bartók. Mikrokosmos Volume 5 number 125: The opening (mm. 1-76) of "Boating", (actually bimodality) in which the right hand uses pitches of E ♭ dorian and the left hand uses those of either G mixolydian or dorian [1]
Microtonality is the use in music of microtones — intervals smaller than a semitone, also called "microintervals".It may also be extended to include any music using intervals not found in the customary Western tuning of twelve equal intervals per octave.
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Some music teachers teach their students relative pitch by having them associate each possible interval with the first interval of a popular song. [1] Such songs are known as "reference songs". [ 2 ] However, others have shown that such familiar-melody associations are quite limited in scope, applicable only to the specific scale-degrees found ...
Western music: 130 Representative examples documenting the history of Western music from the medieval period through the modern era, including many complete works. The Library of Congress: Medieval Music Database: medieval: Four complete manuscripts, a gradual, and three antiphonals. La Trobe University: MuseData classical
Musical symbols are marks and symbols in musical notation that indicate various aspects of how a piece of music is to be performed. There are symbols to communicate information about many musical elements, including pitch, duration, dynamics, or articulation of musical notes; tempo, metre, form (e.g., whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which ...
Shape-note Connexion & music of Jeremiah Ingalls Archived 20 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine where you can hear a fine example of shapenote singing, including the first run-through with the shapenote syllables being sung; A Shape-Note Singing Lesson (PDF). Smithsonian in Your Classroom. Smithsonian Institution. October 2000.
Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis. [1] His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910 ...