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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: Unfortunate Sonic Coincidences: The Lawsuits
Description: Okay…let’s go over this one more time…there are just twelve notes in the western scale…the ways they can be combined to form pleasing sounds are finite in number…it’s a big number, but it’s still finite…
If we look at chords—which are combinations of three or more single notes played simultaneously—the number is smaller still…and there are only so many ways in which chords may be played in a sequence that makes any sense to the ear and the soul…
For example, there are dozens and dozens of hit songs with...