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A Short History of Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop
The history of jazz is one of the most distinctly American stories in music: a tradition that emerged from a specific neighborhood in a specific city and…
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The Twelve-Bar Blues: A Living Form
The blues is a scale, a style, a form, and a philosophy. As a form, the twelve-bar blues is one of the most durable structures in the history of music: twelve…
Read MoreThe Church Modes: Ancient Scales, Modern Music
Before major and minor became the dominant scales of Western music, composers worked within a system of seven modes — ordered sets of pitches derived from the…
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