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I am confused about modes. Can someone explain it in these terms?
The way I remember modes is, for example, that I know that the Lydian mode is the major scale two half-steps up from the root. That is, I would play in the D major scale if I wanted to play in C Lydian, or I would play in the G major scale if I…
Ricky Bascom
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Modern dance music?
It seems dance, even social dance, and "high art" music once walked hand in hand (waltz, for example) but now have parted ways. Is this the case? The last major dance compositions I know of are the ballets of Stravinsky. Have any major composers…
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