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  2. Heinrich Schenker - Wikipedia

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    Heinrich Schenker (19 June 1868 – 14 January 1935) was an Austrian music theorist whose writings have had a profound influence on subsequent musical analysis. [1] His approach, now termed Schenkerian analysis, was most fully explained in a three-volume series, Neue musikalische Theorien und Phantasien (New Musical Theories and Phantasies), which included Harmony (1906), Counterpoint (1910 ...

  3. Neuschwanstein (band) - Wikipedia

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    Neuschwanstein is a progressive rock band which, although never signed to a major record label, were nevertheless able to release an album that was highly regarded in the prog rock scene in the 1970s.

  4. Music theory - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Companion to Music describes three interrelated uses of the term "music theory": The first is the "rudiments", that are needed to understand music notation (key signatures, time signatures, and rhythmic notation); the second is learning scholars' views on music from antiquity to the present; the third is a sub-topic of musicology ...

  5. Harmony (Schenker) - Wikipedia

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    Harmony (German: Harmonielehre, or "Theory of Harmony") is a book published in 1906 by Heinrich Schenker. It is the first installment of Schenker's three-volume treatise on music theory entitled New Musical Theories and Fantasies; the others are Counterpoint and Free Composition. Schenker's name did not appear on the original edition of the ...

  6. Neuschwanstein Castle - Wikipedia

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    Neuschwanstein Castle seen from the southeast Aerial view from the northwest. The effect of the Neuschwanstein ensemble is highly stylistic, both externally and internally. The king's influence is apparent throughout, and he took a keen personal interest in the design and decoration.

  7. Backdoor progression - Wikipedia

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    Backdoor compared with the dominant (front door) in the chromatic circle: they share two tones and are transpositionally equivalent. In jazz and jazz harmony, the chord progression from iv 7 to ♭ VII 7 to I (the tonic or "home" chord) has been nicknamed the backdoor progression [1] [2] or the backdoor ii-V, as described by jazz theorist and author Jerry Coker.

  8. Manfred Bukofzer - Wikipedia

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    In addition to Baroque music, he was a specialist in English music and music theory of the 14th through 16th centuries. His other scholarly interests included jazz and ethnomusicology . Furthermore, during his time at Berkeley, Bukofzer conducted several successful operas, including The Beggar's Opera , Dido and Aeneas , and Village Barber .

  9. Fundamental structure - Wikipedia

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    Urlinie in relation to the tonic triad. The fundamental line (German: Urlinie) is the melodic aspect of the Fundamental structure (), "a stepwise descent from one of the triad notes to the tonic" with the bass arpeggiation being the harmonic aspect. [3]