Harmony

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  1. At the time Norway and Sweden were a united country.

  2. Retrieved October, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rh8gMvzPw0

  3. Edvard Grieg, Letters to colleagues and friends, ed. Finn Benestad, trans. William H. Halverson (Columbus: Peer Gynt Press, 2000), p. 229.

  4. Edvard Grieg, Letters to colleagues and friends, ed. Finn Benestad, trans. William H. Halverson (Columbus: Peer Gynt Press, 2000), p. 224. This quote from Finck’s wife is found in the footnote.

  5. Lehman, F. (2018). Hollywood harmony : musical wonder and the sound of cinema. Oxford University Press. p. 8.

  6. John Williams hears a shark. Retrieved March 28, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMRwv7qMReo&list=RDEMRwv7qMReo&start_radio=1

  7. Jaws Without Music. Retrieved March 28, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrjUIz7fy6c

  8. Ulrich Schütz demonstrates these ratios on an instrument with two strings. The writing is in German but the demonstration is wonderful and perfectly understandable. Retrieved October, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYtSI4-ShLU

  9. James Dann (2010). Standing Waves Part I: Demonstration. Retrieved October 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gr7KmTOrx0

  10. Tiku Majumder (2011) has a wonderful lecture about acoustics titled Musical Acoustics and Sound Perception. At around the eight-minute mark he talks about Pythagoras and this concept of ratios and harmonics. Retrieved October, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBpnIrBNoxs

  11. Resonance Experiment. Retrieved April 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/coDTlinuF2k There are lot of videos on this but this one is quick.

  12. Rachel Barton Pine and te viola damore. Retrieved April 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-IIn8qbOvw

  13. 1985: Ravi Shankar – Master of the Sitar. This is a BBC recording of Sitar master Ravi Shankar. At marker 1:27 he talks about this concept but calls them sympathetic resonating strings. This is, in part, what give the sitar its unique sound. Retrieved March 15, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdRDGwhs38

  14. Understanding The Schuman Resonances & The Connection to our Brain. Retrieved April 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e03-fLCe9R8

  15. Joseph Rulli explains beats in a sound and demonstrates how removing beats will tune a pipe organ. Marker 3:30 is a good demonstration of an out of tune instrument and marker 4:45 he demonstrates tuning the pipes. Listen for the beats in the sound and how they slow down until the pipe is in tune. Retrieved in October, 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnoGxUYKRLc

  16. Pentatonix Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone). Retrieved March 20, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obp-9BEZe1c

  17. YouTube Praetorius Quartett. Beethoven String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132, 3rd Movement. Retrieved March 22, 2025. Listen to the entire thing, it’s great, but starting at 13:30 you will hear a lot of tension with a real resolve at the 14:30 mark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud4I4og-qOU

  18. B.B. King – Sweet Little Angel. The beginning of this video is an interview with B.B. King. The song starts at marker 2:30. Retrieved March 26, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdEaxrYsYnM.

  19. Pachelbel Rant from 2006 by RobPRocks. Retrieved March 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxC1fPE1QEE.

  20. Axis of Awesome – 4 Four Chord Song. Retrieved March 24, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I

  21. YouTube search for The Vocal Lexicon Singing Academy. There are several videos that help with both singing and singing harmony. Listed here is one example. Retrieved March 29, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi5FY7EKU4s&list=PLfeuuGHJfQpt2N7uSpz_8x_W7flPfKjbJ&index=3

  22. Another great video is produced by Songs by Spencer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urZoxWljlXw

  23. Scales and Arpeggios The Aristocats ENG. Retrieved March 26, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khvaIwonxUk

  24. J.-G. Prod’homme, & Reicha, A. (1936). From the Unpublished Autobiography of Antoine Reicha. The Musical Quarterly, 22(3), p. 351. http://www.jstor.org/stable/738876

  25. Beethoven: 1. Sinfonie – hr-Sinfonieorchester. Retrieved March 31, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6h4Gi2_LA4