Impressionism in Music

It was a movement that took place during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries where the music composed was…

Ostinatos

An ostinato refers to a pattern or motif that keeps repeating throughout a music passage. It is not solely associated to rhythm executed on…

The Diatonic Major and Minor Scales

The first diatonic scales we will be looking at are the natural major and minor. Scales can be…

How to Figure Out Chords in a Scale

Learning how to harmonize a scale is a procedure that will allow you to figure out the possible…

The Medieval Church Modes

Each of these modes can be found by playing its one octave range, or…

Rhythm and Music Expression

There is much more to say about rhythm than what I will be exposing in this post. However, I am assuming that…

Scales and the Overtone Series

A musical scale is basically a collection of notes that divide the octave in a certain number of scale…