de musica

In this post we're going to look at some examples of chord borrowing. By this is meant that a chord is taken from another, often paralle...

Today's post will be concerned with another caveat when considering keys. This one could also be called About Non-Chord Tones . CAVEAT...

So up to this point we've been analyzing keys by looking at the group(s) of notes that we've found in pieces of music and giving the...

Following on the heels of the last post we're going to talk a little bit about dominant 7th chords in this post. And as a way of gettin...

If you read part i of this series and found yourself thinking WTF??? have no despair: this post will (hopefully) be a bit more clear and get...

Today's post kicks off a series on the nature of keys. I want to come at the question from a different angle: instead of defining what...

Here is a C major scale: What we're going to do now is build triads on top of each of those scale degrees (except for the 8th ...