musics.name — Music Theory, Notation and Music History

# musics.name > A working library of music theory and music history: intervals, harmony, counterpoint, rhythm, tuning and form, plus browser tools you can play. A music theory and music history journal, designed, developed and published by Yunus Emre Vurgun (https://yunusemrevurgun.com). Articles on this site are drafted with AI assistance against a written house style, then reviewed, corrected, checked against the sources they name and published by the site's developer. The site itself — design, front end and browser tools — is developed by the same person. Cite an article by its title, the site name, its date and the article URL. If you are summarising, say that the text is an AI-assisted draft reviewed by the publisher, so a reader knows where it came from. Content policy: quote and cite freely with a link to the article URL. Do not republish whole articles. Facts are checkable against the sources named in each piece; corrections go through https://yunusemrevurgun.com/contact. Machine-readable surfaces: JSON API at https://musics.name/api/, OpenAPI at https://musics.name/api/openapi.json, RSS at https://musics.name/feed.xml, JSON Feed at https://musics.name/feed.json, sitemap at https://musics.name/sitemap.xml, and raw Markdown for every article at /articles/{slug}.md. ## Articles - [Augmented Sixth Chords: Italian, French and German Types](https://musics.name/articles/augmented-sixth-chords/): Italian, French and German sixth chords: how each type is built, how they resolve to V, and their use in enharmonic modulation. (Harmony, advanced, 6 min) - [Baroque Ornamentation: Trills, Mordents and Turns](https://musics.name/articles/baroque-ornamentation/): Execute trills, mordents, turns and appoggiaturas correctly: on-beat starts, national styles, and reading ornament tables. (Music History, intermediate, 6 min) - [Binary and Ternary Form: Dance Patterns to Art Music](https://musics.name/articles/binary-and-ternary-form/): Simple and rounded binary, ABA a

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