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Nicolas slonimsky 1894 1995 was a russianborn american conductor, author, pianist, composer and lexicographer. Though personal, they chronicle slonimskys work as an ambassador of modern music who introduced twentiethcentury composers, particularly american composers, to audiences worldwide. Swinging with slonimskys thesaurus of scales and melodic. Russian piano pieces by sergei slonimsky book sheet. The slonimsky thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns is classic music literature. Letters from nicolas slonimsky to dorothy adlow is a collection of these missives. Jazz guitar online free jazz guitar lessons for all levels. Guitar etude i have been writing little tunes based on the scales presented in nicolas slonimsky s thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns. Slonimskys thesaurus of scales and patterns if you love to learn guitar. Doctor of musical arts performance, august 2003, 112 pp. Jazz musicians emphasize that john coltrane studied this text in enahncing his improvisational genius.
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Writing out melodic patterns the 123 pattern is incredibly simple, and is the type of thing you may be able to work out off the top of your head. Jazz musicians particularly should find this text, because the text leads to ideas in understanding improvisation. The bulk of material found in the thesaurus contains over one thousand melodic patterns arranged intochapters according to interval cycles referred to as principal tones that divide one or more octaves into equal parts. Nicolas slonimskys thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns at present, i have lost two detailed, timeconsuming posts, and the autosave feature did not retrieve them, so out of frustration, i will continue my exposition at a later date.
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