MusicTheoryWithGuim

I do retro video game transcriptions and music theory analyses!

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@matthewharnage Brian Blade is a master on the drum kit and I absolutely love his Fellowship group. Incredible musicianship. https://t.co/uJJw4PSSud

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@matthewharnage https://t.co/jB0IdlvYxy

Neset's Birds album is top-notch Euro big band. I recommend the tune Boxing which is explosive from the get go.

https://t.co/i126nkYaqm

Phronesis is a super angular trio that pulls off loads of intense rhythmic ideas. This album features Mark Guiliana.

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@tahntahn100 Then again, I think Avid makes you pay for their customer support, which is baffling.

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@tahntahn100 Nah. Discounts seem to rarely come without strings attached, even edu discounts!

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@tahntahn100 But based on what I remember it saying I would assume that you cannot sell sheet music created on an Ed. Licensed Sibelius.

Of course, whether or not they would pursue legal action is a different story.

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@tahntahn100 I believe it states that you cannot use it in any way for commercial use. It's been a long time since I looked at Sibelius' terms and this was on a different version so it might have changed since then.

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@emily_doolittle Great question! Following.

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@ethanhein For sure. I think a huge portion of current theory is "harmony theory." Most of my Jazz theory courses focused on, almost exclusively, harmony and what scales fit what chords.

Really unfortunate considering all of the great things to be explored in Jazz works.

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@ethanhein For sure. The whole "one theory fits all" approach is ridiculous. It's totally fine to use multiple tools to get the job done.

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@ethanhein Yeah, there's a serious problem with trying to force other musics into the previous mold. There are shared concepts that I use in modern analyses (such as VGM or Jazz), but trying to force it to fit the CPP mold is futile and frustrating.

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@ethanhein @brynmdhughes Yeah, attempts to be absolute are futile. At the end of the day, it's just perspective on a work. For some people a particular way clicks and for others it doesn't. Sometimes the passage of time will result it what didn't click before to click now.

The "art" in analysis.

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@ethanhein I think of it in a different way. Rather than explaining dissonance away as a "boring V-I" I think of it often as how a composer beautiful embellished an otherwise standard device.

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@ethanhein @brynmdhughes I think it also helps in the sense that showing these underlying devices can show aspiring composers various ways to decorate simple designs and, again, transform them into wonderful designs.

Or, perhaps, how to maintain a sense of logic when incorporating wild chromaticism.

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@ethanhein @brynmdhughes Not to say that those details are unimportant, but the opposite. For it shows how a common, basic (or even "boring") idea that we all know and use has been elaborated/decorated to be a beautiful expression of the individual.

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@ethanhein The excerpt of the analysis seems to downplay what's going on, but I see what he's getting at.

It's almost like an apparent or pseudo EbØ moving to CØ/Eb.

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@ethanhein Yeah, this is one of those instances that uses what I sometimes refer apparent tertian design, i.e. tertian builds that function differently based on surrounding context. This is similar to, IMO, Augmented 6th theory or how Chromatic Mediants can be respelled to show tendency.