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List of musical symbols

Modern musical symbols are the marks and symbols that are widely used in western musical scores, styles, and instruments today. This is intended to be a comprehensive guide to the various symbols encountered in modern musical notation . These symbols are used in modern pieces of Western music to describe a composition in its fundamentals – pitch , rhythm , tempo – and, to some degree, its articulation . [ edit ] Lines
I mentioned last week that I'm spending a month in Italy without a guitar. My substitute obsession has been learning the Italian language, but I've made time for some spreadsheeting wildness as well. (See Counting Tunes at Jam Sessions for a taste of my ridiculous fascination.)

Songs for Interval Recognition | From the Woodshed

http://fromthewoodshed.com/2011/05/05/songs-for-interval-recognition/
In jazz harmony , the Coltrane changes ( Coltrane Matrix or cycle , also known as chromatic third relations and multi-tonic changes ) are a harmonic progression variation using substitute chords over common jazz chord progressions. These substitution patterns were first demonstrated by jazz musician John Coltrane on the albums Bags & Trane (on the track "Three Little Words") and Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago (on "Limehouse Blues"). [ 1 ] Coltrane continued his explorations on the 1960 album Giant Steps , and expanded upon the substitution cycle in his compositions " Giant Steps " and "Countdown", the latter of which is a reharmonized version of Miles Davis 's "Tune Up." The Coltrane changes are a standard advanced harmonic substitution used in jazz improvisation. The changes serve as a pattern of chord substitutions for the ii-V-I progression ( supertonic - dominant - tonic )

Coltrane changes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_changes