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If I am getting this right (and I have a lot to learn about ideas like this) this is a similar tool that's used when using Shearing block chords, because at first glance it seems only to go up and down the scale, but looking at it deeper, there's a lot more movement and leading notes than you realiz...

I also am not sure if I get what related intervals you are referring to. I get the Hidemith thing with one tone in an interval being the tonic, but when I read your description of which notes, I am confused. The notes on the first beat are clear enough, the intervals you give for the second beat se...

What does "related intervals" mean and what does "the tonic of all the intervals mean"? Sorry, I'm really slow

Messiaen, MMMMMMmmm.....

Contrast these two movements of his "Quartet for the End of Time." Both absolutely beautiful for different reasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-r59Iyx6-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dia_9nUMpm8

Oh I had no idea Wayne Shorter had a new CD coming out! He's my absolute favorite musician, not only in his music but also in his lifestyle. Bob I really envy you for being able to see him.

Brad Mehldau's new live CD pushes the musical envelope quite a bit.

In my personal thinking i think the sharp eleventh conform with the overtone series not in that it exists in consonance with the fundamental, but in that it is obtained using a ladder of the most consonant overtone interval (perfect fifth). That being said, the M2, M6, M3, and M7 intervals would als...

I'm wondering if any of you has studied the Golden Ratio and its effects on music. I just barely discovered that there is research relating music to the golden ratio. What I've heard so far is come composers either conscious or unconscious use of the ratio in determining where to present the climax ...

Yes that jives ;). Particularly, with the 11 and 12 TO, you are able to make alternate Lydian Modes easily, whereas with Orders 8-10 more or less just make altered Lydians. Example, Official scale with C Db D E F# G A B, 12 TO. There is a an Alternate Lydian Tonic that's embedded with this scale, G ...

I am just reading "This is your brain on music." It is very well-written and researched!

Also, I am reading "Letters to a Young Poet" By Rilke, and dabbling in "My musical Language," by Messiaen.

Why do you think they are arranged the way George Russell arranges them? (+5, -3, -7, 4, -2). This frustrates the normal order of fifths.

P.S I think George is right in arranging it this way, and I have my reasons, I just want to know what you guys think.

forgive me for appearing like an idiot. i guess i've never thought of VTG vs HTG as opposite poles; rather, bob's historical perspective seems more fitting... humankind is constantly working through chaos to seek order - it is a natural evolution - the quest to make sense of the world around us. ne...

Yes. Also, the dialectical 'tension' between creativity-passion and craft-consolidation. Even on this forum, the 'tension' between theory and practise.; as seen in the tendency to view players as distinct from theorists, intellect v emotion. Jazz seems to have shifted from the Dionysian epoch of Pa...

i was actually pondering a response to andrew's post, but i finally realized: i got nuthin' - i need more... more what? the duality andrew speaks of - player vs theorist, intellect vs emotion, order vs chaos, etc... is there one specific dynamic you were referring to, pertaining to russell? Db Well...

This could seem really off topic, but have you guys read or are familiar with Nietzsche's aesthetic work "The Birth of Tragedy"? In it he discusses in art, especially early Greek tragedy, the presence of two opposed elements, the Apollinian element, concerned with order, harmony, and unity...

Oh yeah, and I forgot to answer your question about the CMG's. Yes, he does use quite a few, but some of the modes are actually already in the tune itself.