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What Is Music? Part Three: Cycles of Fifths, Pentatonic, and More

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Andrew Hickey

This series of posts has become a bit longer than I intended, I’m afraid. It turns out that a question like “what is music?” is a bit more complicated than it sounds. Here’s part one and part two. There’ll be … Continue reading →

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What Music Is, Part Two

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Andrew Hickey

So we’ve established in the last post roughly what we mean by music, and we’ve also established that from now on I’m going to narrow down my meanings quite a bit, but that it’s worth bearing the broader definition in … Continue reading →