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Mantra of Avalokiteshvara: meaning and purpose of popular Buddhist chants
Popular songs featuring the Phrygian mode and Neapolitan chord
Popular songs using the Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode: famous examples of the Mixolydian major scale in classical and pop music
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Rollin' and Tumblin' as the essence of slide guitar technique combined with lyrics diversity
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5 songs featuring Dorian mode
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8 orchestral pieces depicting thunderstorms
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Wishful Sinful: atypical harmony of Robby Krieger
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Hindustani flute by Ronu Majumdar brings meditative mood to classical ragas
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Locrian mode: music examples and harmonic structure
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Classical music examples imitating bees and buzzing insects
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Popular songs featuring the Phrygian mode and Neapolitan chord
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Mixolydian mode: famous examples of the Mixolydian major scale in classical and pop music
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The dramatic-abstract of Thea Musgrave's music as influenced by serialism
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Microtonality: the variety of approaches to microtonal music in world cultures
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Scandalous piano experiments by George Antheil shocked early avant-garde scene
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Surrealistic Pillow as the ultimate psychedelic experience pioneered by Jefferson Airplane
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Symphonic scores by Erich Wolfgang Korngold established new standards in the film industry
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First ever composition for solo percussion by Edgard Varèse ionized Zappa to choose a career in music
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Swordfishtrombones: groundbreaking instrumentation catches Tom Waits' signature sound
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Mixture of traditional Mexican melody and rhythms as the secret of popularity behind Maria Grever's songs
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Ry Cooder & Vishwa Mohan Bhatt: a slide-guitar collaboration that fused Indian classical and Delta blues
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Adrian Belew's spellbinding guitar tricks saturate prog music with the sounds of space
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Mozart and Tom Waits wrote music for the glass armonica which was rumored to cause mental health damage
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Songs for Drella: the minimalistic tribute to Andy Warhol that united his beloved artists for the first time since 1960s
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Pianola: the reproducing piano as the first Hi-Fi player and preservation capsule for recitals on piano rolls
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The low-end sound of Morphine trio cut short by Mark Sandman's tragic death while on a stage
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Gershwin's Summertime: the most recorded song draws inspiration from Ukrainian lullaby and African American spiritual
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1960s clarinet & sitar duo pioneered an ambient genre with the album for spiritual practices
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Charley Patton's guitar tricks bridged the genre gap between Delta blues and rock'n'roll
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The bottleneck guitar blues by Blind Willie Johnson is sliding through space on the Voyager Golden Records
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The Original Dixieland Jass Band made the first-ever jazz recording over 100 years ago
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African bard Foday Musa Suso represents griot culture by mixing kora music with Western minimalism and jazz
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