Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2847009 in Books
• Published on: 1987-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Customer Reviews

The World Wide Web of Music
The Scale Chord Synopticon is an essential addition to any musician interested in expanding their musical vocabulary. Approaching the basic elements of musical organization as a series of matematical patterns with clearly defined limits rather than as a historical/ethnological search for what has already been used, Powell and Fowler have created what is essentially a directory of all possible scales and chords within the tempered 12-note system of Western music. I recently used it to explore all the possible three-note chords, from a three-note chromatic cluster to the symmetric augmented triad; using the Synopticon was far quicker than trying to work out the possibilities on my own.