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So Near, Yet So Far Away

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In tonal harmony, there is a concept of distance between keys. Sometimes we talk about two keys being very closely related to each other. At different times we describe two key centers as being very distant from one another. This is a struggle for language to try to describe the feeling that our ears get in these situations, but it is not difficult to explain what is going on. A major scale has eight notes, including the octave. Comparing the notes of the B flat major scale to the notes of the F [...]

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