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Takashi Yoshimatsu is a contemporary composer. The majority of his work is triadic and contains simple, repeated progressions, or in some cases pandiatonicism.Often extended tertian harmonies are followed by whole tone harmonies (such as in the first movement of Symphony No. 5; or the first movement of his "Cyber Bird" Concerto for alto saxophone, which, in addition, makes use of free atonal ...
The Complete Thesaurus of Musical Scales, revised edition. New York: Masaya Music Services. ISBN 0-9676353-0-6. Yamaguchi, Masaya. 2006. Symmetrical Scales for Jazz Improvisation, revised edition. New York: Masaya Music Services. ISBN 0-9676353-2-2. Yamaguchi, Masaya. 2012. Lexicon of Geometric Patterns for Jazz Improvisation.
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8, 1725). The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.
Ludwig van Beethoven wrote cadenzas for Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor [1] first and third movements. Joseph Joachim wrote a cadenza for Brahms's Violin Concerto. [1] Benjamin Britten wrote a cadenza for Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 1 in C for Mstislav Rostropovich. David Johnstone wrote A Manual of Cadenzas and Cadences for Cello, pub ...
In jazz, the altered scale, altered dominant scale, or Super Locrian scale (Locrian ♭ 4 scale) is a seven-note scale that is a dominant scale where all non-essential tones have been altered. This means that it comprises the three irreducibly essential tones that define a dominant seventh chord , which are root, major third, and minor seventh ...
Albert Ayler (/ ˈ aɪ l ər /; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. [1]After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s.
A transposition by 1, 4, 7, or 10 semitones will transform the E ♭ scale into the D ♭ scale, the C ♯ scale into the D scale, and the D scale into the E ♭ scale. Conversely, transpositions by 2, 5, 8, or 11 semitones acts in the reverse way; the E ♭ scale goes to the D scale, D to C ♯ and C ♯ to E ♭ .