Anyone who has heard the music of Silk Sonic, the R&B superduo comprising Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars, will immediately recognize that it’s heavily steeped in early-’70s soul aesthetics.

In a previous In Theory article, we discussed how Kurt Cobain used non-functional harmony to create bold and immensely evocative music — an approach integral to Nirvana’s sound.

The music theory entrance examination for all entering graduate students is divided into three main aspects: Harmony. This part of the exam covers all aspects of traditional diatonic and chromatic ...

Catalog : MUTH.1010 Music Theory 1 (Formerly 71.101) Catalog : MUTH.1010 Music Theory 1 (Formerly 71.101) Home Academic Catalog. Academic Catalog. ... with a free instrumental part which utilizes free ...

He claims that, for many of us, the default definition of ‘music theory’ is actually something else: the harmonic style of 18th century European musicians. What’s more, he argues that there is a white ...

I attended the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, Maryland. In my theory class, Professor Thomas Benjamin introduced me to the concept of harmonic planing. Whereas most 19th-century harmony ...

‘And the world will live as IV-V-I’? To celebrate what would have been John Lennon’s 79th birthday, we take a look at some of the harmonic theory behind his much-loved pacifist anthem. It’s one of the ...

The study of Dirac-harmonic maps sits at the intersection of differential geometry and quantum field theory, uniting concepts from harmonic maps and spinor fields into a single elegant framework.

While the language of music theory may sound a little strange to the uninitiated, for Callender those continuous voice-leading and harmonic spaces are inextricably linked to the old, familiar tunes.

Calderón–Zygmund theory: A framework in harmonic analysis for studying singular integral operators, characterised by size and smoothness conditions, and adapted in the noncommutative setting to ...

Although the Harmonic South String Orchestra was not active at the time, Johnson was a music instructor at Lester Elementary School. Hall learned discipline and found her voice playing violin ...