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The Mathematics of It All

Posted on March 2, 2012 by KJ at Guide Tone Lines

If you are anything like me, you struggled with math in school. Oh, I could write like Faulkner or Hemingway, play the saxophone like Jimmy Dorsey, draw like Rodin or Picasso….but when it came to numbers, I was lost. Eventually, … Continue reading →

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Posted in baroque composers, changes, chord progression, contrary motion, counterpoint, Great American Songbook, guide tone lines, harmonic structures, mathematics, music theory, Orchestration, percussion, rhythm, rudiments, Shenkerian Analysis | Tagged big band writing, changes, chord progressions, counterpoint, functional harmony, geometry, guide tone lines, guidetone lines blog, heinrich schenker, Jerome Kern, mathematics, music, music theory, patterns, percussion, rhythm, rudiments, sequence, shenkerian analysis, standards | 3 Comments
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