Theory Songs
4 Chords to Rule Them All
Songs to Enjoy
Petrushka Orchestral | Piano
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Romeo and Juliet Ballet | Death
Ralph Vaughn Williams Fantasia on a theme
Music Comedy Anyone?
Switched On Pop
Pieces from these podcasts:
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- Mozart
Selena Gomez Meets J.S. Bach
Did you catch it? What’s remarkable about this is the presence of the complete circle of fourths progression–from tonic to tonic with no divergences along the way. Sure, you’ll often hear circle of fourths progressions in limited deployment, but to use the whole thing is not all that common with today’s pop music.
Here’s the progression Ms. Gomez sings around:
C#m F#m B E A d#o G# C#m
or in Roman Numeral analysis:
i iv VII III VI iio V i
(Note the songwriters’ use of the subtonic instead of the leading tone and the major instead of augmented version of the mediant–not uncommon alterations but perhaps this has been consciously done to reflect the mood of the lyrics at those moments.)
On top of the theory stuff, you can also make the connection between Selena Gomez and Bach (along with many other Baroque and Classical composers), for whom this sort of extended progression was more stock-in-trade. You can play the historical music and they will grasp how, from a harmonic perspective, it has been put together.
Pentatonic Music
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J.S. Bach - Crab Canon
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Yo Yo Ma plays Bach
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Critical Thinking
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Transforming noise into music
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Cymascope
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Pink Floyd Visualized
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