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We love Bach’s fugues.There are many reasons why: the intricate counterpoint, the elegant development,...
Tonic VS Finalis
Two similar concepts—but profoundly different.
Is the Finalis of a Tonus or Modus the...
What Is the Galant Schema Ponte? (Baroque Composition Technique Explained)
In the world of 18th-century...
Hey Musicus!
How many dots exist in Renaissance Notation?
How many dots are there in Renaissance Music?
If...
The Minuet: Characteristics and Compositional Elements
Origin of the Menuet
The Minuet is one of the...
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We love Bach’s fugues.There are many reasons why: the intricate counterpoint, the elegant development,...
Tonic VS Finalis
Two similar concepts—but profoundly different.
Is the Finalis of a Tonus or Modus the...
What Is the Galant Schema Ponte? (Baroque Composition Technique Explained)
In the world of 18th-century...
Hey Musicus!
How many dots exist in Renaissance Notation?
How many dots are there in Renaissance Music?
If...
The Minuet: Characteristics and Compositional Elements
Origin of the Menuet
The Minuet is one of the...
Quintfall vs 3 down 2 up
In Baroque Composition the same movement in the Bass can take on different interpretations...
The Missa “Hercules Dux Ferrarie” by Josquin Desprez
The Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae is...
Lamento Bass in Partimento
The Lamento Bass, often mentioned in discussions about Partimenti and Baroque...
The 2 Categories of Chants
The chants and melodies in Cantus Firmus are primarily divided into two categories:...
The Prayers of the Canonical Hours in the Divine Office According to the Breviary of Pius V (1568)
The...
II Tonus Plagalis, Imperfectus Mixtus Imperfectus, Commixtus Imperfectus Mixtus with the VII
The Source...
How to Improvise a Fugue?
J. S. Bach, The Art of the Fugue
The Problem is the Question!
Many...
Paragrafo introduttivo
What is an Axiom?
In Mathematics, an Axiom is a statement or proposition on which...
The Concept of Scale
Everything that is well-organized has a starting point, a development, and an end.
Just...
Paragrafo introduttivo
What Is Music Made Of?
Everything is made of something; everything has its substance,...
Paragrafo introduttivo
The Sarabande
Hey Musicus who are sailing through the oceans of ancient dances!
In...
Why you Should study Harmony?
You can’t compose music if you don’t study harmony!
Studying...
Nothing demonstrates the sophistication and mastery of a composer more than the ability to compose a...
Repetitiveness is Ruining Your Music!
How wonderful would it be to create music that isn’t monotonous?
How...
Learning harmony is anything but easy…
While there are rules that are more or less always valid,...
One of the biggest problems when we want to compose our own music is that often we don’t know how...
