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    Is it possible to think of music theory as inverse composition?

    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...
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    What key would this piece of music I've just composed be in?

    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
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    Memorising 2 essays!?

    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...
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    Memorising 2 essays!?

    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...
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