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today we translated the first example of the C lydian versus the C major scales into chinese.

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there's a blog for this class: http://desmus.yo2.cn/ not sure if you can get it from the us, but maybe.

Happy Birthday George! We were talking about you today in Beijing when I demonstrated the difference in the sound of unity between the C Major and the C Lydian scales - from page 1 of the 2001 edition. So 44 young Chinese design students at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, thank you today for all y...

next monday i start teaching a four-week workshop at cafa - the central academy of fine arts - in beijing - called "design is music" should be fun. we'll have architects, graphic designers, fashion designers, photographers and newmedia people in the class. we'll play and listen to great wo...

http://www.music44.com/X/product/20849BCD-M&Tab=DETAILS it's always, more or less, amazing to me how much stuff is available for free on the internet: here is "one third of" vic juris book "inside outside". which third, i don't know. the strangest thing, of course, is that wh...

absolutely (how could it have taken so long for you guys to (not) respond to sandy's question). i remember begging for a discussion about "so what" in the old forum, because it seems (as do all the songs on kind of blue) to be lcc all the way. just listen to the version on the gr album of ...

Thanks for that great post. When people speak from their core you can really hear it - even on the internet!

http://www.robertappleton.com/time.pdf I've put this pdf (an excerpt from my book) on the web, because in several posts we seem to be discussing "ways of saying" the concept. And at the same time we're struggling with not wanting to alter or misunderstand the original. This is how I teach ...

The slide rule - and the idea that music could be understood as sound, or as feeling, or... as pure math - was very interesting to me. I do think that the more different ways we can describe something complex, the more likely we are to understand it. The Roget's Thesaurus of Music would do that - it...

Thanks.

And why is E- then a CMG?

Also, how could these chords be considered PMGs (Primary Modal Genres)?

And then: How do you define CMG, PMG and SMG?

This link is to the Martin Williams Interview with George Russell from the 1964 edition of the Concept (with permission): http://www.robertappleton.com/gr_interview1960.pdf

Marc, Thank you for so succinctly reminding us of why the Concept is important. In 1960 I was 13 years old. I was listening to and reading about Ornette Coleman. And I didn't understand how Jazz "experts" could praise Charlie Parker for his originality, and damn Ornette for his. And that's...

[img]http://www.robertappleton.com/public/nardis1.pdf Here are the chords I have for Nardis (linked above and pasted below). So starting with E-7 which is a VII of F Lydian, and A-7 which is a V of F Lydian, how do they become h (horizontal?) and CMG's (Conceptual Modal Genres, meaning either "...

I'm just re-reading this thread, and wondering if Sandy (?!) might be willing to take on the task of explaining in simple terms what modal genres are, and how the CMG relates to Nardis. I'm looking at the 1964 edition now because my 2001 edition is back in Beijing - so that's my excuse. When I did t...

i just got back from beijing this afternoon. sitting here at detroit airport with an 8-hour layover to duluth (!). i checked out the forum and note that marc rossi has joined as a member. mr rossi is, i believe one of the few authorized teachers of the concept - people who have been authorized by ge...