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I was in a discussion with a music theorist who thought composition was inverse theory, and theory was inverted composition (i.e. a composer could go backwards from a theoretical analysis to generate a piece, in the same way a theorist can take a piece and make an analysis). I had strong...

D Dorian. not a scale but a mode. Each scale or mode is defined by it's sequence whole and half steps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_mode

It often helps to chunk pieces together. If you make the analogy to music. A violinist doesn't memorize the notes ABCDEFGA instead they memorize all 8 notes as a single concept: the A minor scale. Do the same with your text, make groups of words and sentences based on similar meaning. Break all...

It often helps to chunk pieces together. If you make the analogy to music. A violinist doesn't memorize the notes ABCDEFGA instead they memorize all 8 notes as a single concept: the A minor scale. Do the same with your text, make groups of words and sentences based on similar meaning. Break all...