{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Simply stated this book is a \"how\" process to creating and improvising music and in so doing answers that inevitable question of \"why?\" Why is something not working or why does it work? By playing the examples ( of which there are more than a thousand) ones ear is developed to new levels of sensitivity giving  a composer or player nearly limitless material from which to create.  I highly recommend it."}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2016-08-13T18:44:57.367600"}, "title": "Thesaurus of scales and melodic patterns", "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:35:15.301431"}, "covers": [1569975], "first_publish_date": "1947", "latest_revision": 5, "key": "/works/OL1930158W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL231490A"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Musical intervals and scales", "tone patterns", "harmonic progressions"], "revision": 5}