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Negative harmony

In music theory, negative harmony is a concept that every musical note, or more precisely, every interval — and therefore every chord, has a corresponding “negative” counterpart produced by reflecting the pitch across a harmonic axis between the tonic root and its dominant. The idea stems from the theory of polarity of Ernst Levy (1895–1981), presented…

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related to Steve Coleman · 12
Negative harmony → Art Tatum, Barak Schmool, Charlie Parker, Coleman, Eventually, In, Jacob Collier, John Coltrane, Levy's, Sonny Rollins, Steve Coleman, Von Freeman
related to Jacob Collier · 8
Negative harmony → Century, Collier, He, In, Jacob Collier, Levy, Steve Coleman, YouTube
related to Ernst Levy's A Theory of Harmony · 7
Negative harmony → Ernst Levy, Harmony, In, Levy's, The, Theory, Zarlino
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