music theory

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• The Harmonic Series and Overtones: Why Notes Have Timbre
  Every musical note contains a stack of overtones at whole-number multiples of its frequency. Learn the harmonic series and how it shapes timbre and intervals.
• Major and Minor Scales
  The diatonic scale patterns underlying Western tonality: the arrangement of whole and half steps that defines major and minor keys.
• Time Signatures and Meter
  How music marks time: beats grouped into measures, simple and compound meters, and the time signatures that encode them.
• The Circle of Fifths
  The twelve-note arrangement that shows key signatures, relative keys, and the harmonic relationships composers use to move between keys.