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Stairway to Heaven

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Philharmonic Radio

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CSOUND

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MUZIK

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Contents

So What is Music Anyway?

What is Perfect Pitch and Do I Have It?

Notes and Noises

Xylophones and Saxophones: Same Notes but Different Sounds

Instrumental Break

How Loud is Loud?

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Harmony and Cacophony

Weighing up Scales

The Self-Confident Major and the Emotional Minor

I Got Rhythm

Making Music

Listening to Music

Fiddly Details

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361

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Naming and identifying intervals

Using the decibel system

Tuning an instrument to a pentatonic scale

Calculating equal temperament

The notes of the major keys

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Baa,Baa,Black Sheep

For He's a Jolly Good Fellow

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YouTube

howmusicworks@yahoo.co.uk

BBC

Desert Island Discs

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So What is Music Anyway?

Sir Thomas Beecham

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What is Perfect Pitch and Do I Have It?

ABBA

Dancing Queen

Dancing Queen

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Dancing Queen

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Luigi

Anton Schwarz

Luigi Streptococci

Anton

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How music works :

the science and psychology of beautiful sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and beyond by John Powell
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