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2 keys at once... I think that's the right spelling, but if I'm wrong please correct me:blush:

Oh... and 2 NOTES? That's harmony! The basis of all music...

But, it's more that there is more than one tonal center being used at once... like a C Major and D Major chord sounding together. Stravinsky's famous for it.

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Oh... and 2 NOTES? That's harmony! The basis of all music...

But, it's more that there is more than one tonal center being used at once... like a C Major and D Major chord sounding together. Stravinsky's famous for it.

Well, to be technical, his most popular work is almost definitely Rite of Spring and the most famous (and most common) key juxtapositions by far are those of a tritone and semitone apart. The famous maiden chord is an A Minor underneath an Eb dominant 7th (if I recall correctly).

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There, all fixed for you :)

nu uh... that's for modern music...

Music started out monophonic... then when two notes were played together, that's what started everything. The experimentation wouldn't have started until they could figure out how to make it more complex. At least that's a paraphrase from Shoenberg. :)

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nu uh... that's for modern music...

Music started out monophonic... then when two notes were played together, that's what started everything. The experimentation wouldn't have started until they could figure out how to make it more complex. At least that's a paraphrase from Shoenberg. :)

Well, but there is quite a lot of contemporary music that has no harmonies. (Leaving aside the fact that the term harmony is highly ambivalent in the first place, since it's not clearly distinct from other acoustical properties.)

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Well, but there is quite a lot of contemporary music that has no harmonies. (Leaving aside the fact that the term harmony is highly ambivalent in the first place, since it's not clearly distinct from other acoustical properties.)

Right... When I said the basis of all music, I meant the basis for which music was created... Like numbers came before algebra, but now some algebra is a whole different concept with letters standing for numbers... You can have A + B = C - F etc... Which has nothing to do with numbers, but it does.

That's how I feel music is. It all started with just notes... And it became something COMPLETELY different.

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