Well, if you want to get technical; Aeolian is a mode (not just a scale), natural minor is a scale (not a key or a mode in the strictest sense), and a...

The normal Classical symphony was about a half hour. I don't think the dynamics were an issue; the main criticisms of Eroica at the time were that it ...

Well, for one thing, it was long (about an hour). It also had many modulations which baffled the audience. He altered the variation forms a bit. No...

Yeah, it can be a little ambiguous using English instead of music notation. If someone asked me what "A to B#" is, then I would assume they meant asc...

Diminished 7th

Are you referring to the "Circle Progressions" article? The author is concentrating on chord roots on this article to demonstrate how chord progressi...

Hi MattyPretends116, I'm not too familiar with the song (I'm thinking Tom Petty?) but if Am sounds like the tonic, then it is. The A major chord does...

Yeah, Locrian is not an original church mode. It's really a theoretical mode (thanks to Glareanus). To me, it sounds like unresolved Ionian - that B...

Yeah, I love pentatonic scales too. They're not boring; it's what you do with them that makes them either boring or not. A good example that comes t...

12TET is 12 tone equal temperament (the current western tempered chromatic scale).

I studied ethnomusicology in college and what NoteBoat says about Indian music pretty much matches my experience as well. I noticed that in cultures ...

Is the duration of the trill also a quarter note (crotchet)? One good way to do this is to notate the G note with the stem down and the B note with t...

Ah yes, I agree with the odd treatment (“mistreatment”) of some instruments and the question of balance between the instruments. I always took it...

I've only read very little of Boethius but I'm surprised that you didn't come across a discussion of the diatoinic genus (as Boethius copied heavily f...

Hi NoteBoat, I still have to disagree about Beethoven:-) Simply because he had to arrange for horns that were not of the modern design does not make ...