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Music Theory I, Choir Member, Mt Dulcimer. This is a bucket dream, to better understand the music I've been performing most of my life.

New York
Joined January 2014
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Music as the vehicle for a full life. ow.ly/i/4njKc #inspiration
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Semitones in major mode always occur between pitch classes III & IV & classes VII & VIII/I. #MusicTheory1
Major mode contains 12 pitch classes. #MusicTheory1
The scale of 7 white keys on the keyboard is called the DIATONIC scale. #MusicTheory1
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Any scale is identified by its unique ordering of whole tones & semitones. #MusicTheory1
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A scale is a series of steps in ascending order within an octave. #MusicTheory1
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Diatonic Modes: Using C Major Mode using each pitch class with the same WWS-W-WWS pattern is used to create a new scale. #MusicTheory1
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Diatonic Scale: 7 notes in order in one octave in Pitch Class C, all keyboard white keys, 5 whole tones, 2 semitones. #MusicTheory1
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SCALE: A series of notes arranged in ascending order within an octave. #MusicTheory1
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Study finds mental performance of people with dementia improves from singing theguardian.com/science/2013…
How songs can help people whose minds are deteriorating. theatlantic.com/health/archi…
Musical optimist during polar vortex. ow.ly/i/4jMfs
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"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything." - Plato http://bit.ly/J00iC
"Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without". -Confucius
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." -Aldous Huxley
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain
"Wow! You're obviously in a good mood today! You're singing!" "Um, yeah... I'm always singing." #mylifeisamusical
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