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Colors of The Wind (The Song)
Before I continue on from where I left off with 13th chords back on Friday the 13th of April, I’m going to respond to a request made by one of my readers and take a look at a modern pop … Continue reading
Posted in alan menken, algonquian, changes, chord extensions, chord progression, color tones, disney musicals, dissonance, dissonant intervals, film scores, guide tone lines, harmonic structures, Hollywood Scores, john smith, key change, modal scales, music theory, pentatonic scale, pocahantas, powhatan indian, stephen schwarz, us history
Tagged alan menken, chord extensions, chord progressions, color tones, colors of the wind, colors of the winds, disney, disney animated films, functional harmony, guide tone lines, guidetone lines blog, john smith, music, music theory, music theory guide tone lines, pocahantas, powhatan, stephen schwarz, us history
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The Shell and More
When it comes to extended harmonies, the most important tones are the third, seventh and ninth. So, in the key of C (major, dominant and minor), these are: Of course, this doesn’t make much sense in the ear until the … Continue reading
Posted in changes, chord extensions, chord progression, color tones, guide tone lines, guitar shortcuts, harmonic structures, modal scales, modes, music theory, truncated chords, truncated harmonies
Tagged augmented chords, changes, chord extensions, chord progressions, color tones, functional harmony, guide tone lines, guidetone lines blog, harmonic shell, jazz theory, jazz theory guide tone lines, lydian mode, music, music theory, music theory guide tone lines, truncated chords, truncated chords for guitar players, whole-tone harmonies
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Getting From Here To There – Go Fourth…
In the last post, we examined the verse of Jerome Kern’s All The Things You Are – which, while not especially memorable from a melodic standpoint when compared to what follows (Oscar Hammerstein’s lyrics here do set up the refrain … Continue reading
Posted in baroque composers, baroque era, cadence, changing keys, chord progression, common tone diminished, common tones, diminished chords, dissonance, dissonant intervals, Great American Songbook, guide tone lines, harmonic structures, Improvisation, key change, modal scales, modes, music theory, Orchestration, Shenkerian Analysis
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