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Magic Rings: Music Tom Benjamin (6682178) Music education Music cognition Musicology and ethnomusicology Music performance Music Music Education Music Learning This is a summary of my Music Rosetta Stone (2022). Like the famous stone that translated between three ancient languages, the full version translates from physics to performance. It is part of a series of ‘Magic Ring’ formats for educational Quests. The Rings are familiar and literal, such as the Zodiac and colour wheel, as they had the properties of stage magic (white magic or natural magic) in ancient days. The paper Ring family items like the Rosetta Stone can be constructed quickly anywhere from a sheet of paper from common memory.Music Theory is also a classic area of application for my Neural Domain Theory: it shows the multi-level cross-domain matching that is required for a learner to work from a printed sheet of lyrics, notation and tablature to the muscular movements of singing and playing an instrument. Sight and audiation are quite different domains and not everyone can easily translate one to the other.Ukulele groups notoriously carry with them the Circle of 5ths and sometimes the small key-transposing slide rules, but the Music Rosetta Stone is the first slide rule to translate all levels from raw sound in Hz through the types of notation used in schools:<ul><li>· Hz – for absolute pitch frequency</li><li>· Notation – to capture and share music in print</li><li>· Tablature – to depict finger positions</li><li>· Alphabet – for chords</li><li>· ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</li><li>· Roman numerals (I II II IV V VI VII) – for Scale Degrees</li><li>· Solfege (Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do) – for their Sounds</li></ul>The Stone solves for any of these by knowing another. We might hum a tune in Solfege, match that to a piano or guitar sound, look up the corresponding Roman numerals and derive its Progression. Conversely, we might start with a common pop Progression in Roman numerals such as I-V-vi-IV, look up its corresponding Solfege, hum it, then transpose it to a different key by sliding the Alphabet row. 2026-09-22T02:19:16Z Dataset Media 10.25909/33960466.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/media/Magic_Rings_Music/33960466 CC BY 4.0