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The Power of the Flat Six
#music #musictheory #musicology The flat sixth scale degree, an ever-present musical phenom that evokes nostalgia in the listener that is everywhere, and yes I mean everywhere! Come join me for a brief musical history journey from the late 1800s to … Continue reading
Ravel plays Ravel: Oiseaux Tristes
Maurice Ravel plays Oiseaux tristes (from Miroirs), Duo-Art piano roll, recorded London, 30 June 1922 […]
The Music Theory Iceberg Explained
[…] 0:00 Introduction 0:30 1: Open air 2:04 2: Tip of the iceberg 4:02 3: Under the surface 7:50 4: Sinking deeper 14:00 Hooktheory 14:44 5: Daylight doesn’t reach down here 20:33 6: Running out of oxygen 29:27 7: The … Continue reading
Tuning of Gamelan and Sensory Dissonance
n this video I focus on unique tuning systems Slendro and Pelog used in Gamelan music. I go through how they are different from chromatic scale and how they naturally emerge from timbre of Gamelan metallophones, similar to how chromatic … Continue reading
The Mathematical Problem with Music, and How to Solve It | #SoME2
There is a serious mathematical problem with the tuning of certain musical instruments, a problem that even luminaries such as Galileo, Newton, and Euler tried to solve. This video is about this problem and about some of the ways to … Continue reading
Why Did Music Evolve? – 4 Hypotheses
[…] Music is a human universal but its survival benefits are not obvious. So why did it evolve? I sat down with professor Ed Hagen to discuss 4 hypotheses on the origins of our grooviest trait? Huge thanks to Prof. … Continue reading
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