Download or read book Fundamentals of Writing Four Part Harmony written by Jonathan E. Peters and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCLUDES: free life-time access to on-line quizzes and assignments for each lesson. Learn the fundamentals of four-part writing in this, the latest book in a series of books on music by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters. A great way to begin learning the fundamentals of four-part harmony is to study four-part vocal writing. Even if you do not intend to write for voice, much of what you learn in four-part vocal writing can also be applied to instrumental music. WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS COURSE? A computer or portable device with internet connection. A printer if you wish to print the assignments. A basic knowledge of music theory and music composition. If you do not already have a rudimentary understanding of music theory and music composition, it is recommended that you take a theory and composition course before beginning this course. (See "Music Theory", "Music Composition 1" and "Music Composition 2" by the same author.) Paper and pencil or some type of music notation software. Finale NotePad software is free. You can read more about NotePad and download it at: www.finalemusic.com/NotePad Although not a necessity, it is very beneficial to have some ability to play the piano (or other instrument) WHAT AM I GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS COURSE? Free life-time access to on-line quizzes and assignments for each lesson. .You will learn the basic guidelines and techniques of four-part writing. By the end of the course you will be writing assignments for four parts. WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE? Anyone wanting to learn how to write for four-parts. Every student of music! Beginning Composers/Songwriters (this is a beginning level course) Visit the author's web site at: www.ComposerJonathanPeters.com
Download or read book Harmonic Part writing written by William Alfred White and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Counterpoint in Composition written by Felix Salzer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- Stanley Persky, City University of New York
Download or read book Music Composition 1 written by Jonathan E. Peters and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Music Composition 1" is the first book in a two book series by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters, which explains how music is formed and how to compose your own music. Book 1 covers the study of rhythmic and melodic composition, while book 2 covers harmonic composition and compositional form.Each lesson covers a particular concept (or related concepts). Concepts and compositional techniques are demonstrated throughout the course with real musical examples (pictures and on-line audio samples).Each lesson also contains memory questions, access to on-line quizzes, listening assignments, and transcription/composition assignments. Memory questions serve to summarize and reinforce key concepts learned, while the quizzes tests the students' knowledge and understanding of the material from each lesson. Students who take this course will get practice transcribing music (hearing a rhythm or a melody and writing it down) and also learn how to use music notation software. In the composition assignments students will get real life practice using the information and techniques learned in each lesson to write their own rhythms and melodies.WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS COURSE? To receive free life-time access to the on-line audio samples and quizzes you must have a computer with internet connection, screen, and speakers.A basic knowledge of music theory: students who take this course should be able to read notes in treble and bass clef, understand note durations, meter, key, scales, flats, sharps, intervals (major, minor and perfect), chords (major and minor), chord inversions, tempo, dynamics, and articulations. If you do not already have a rudimentary understanding of music theory, it is recommended that you take a music theory course before this course.Some type of music notation software. The notation software demonstrated in this course is the Finale NotePad software. NotePad is a very basic music notation program and has all the necessary functions for a beginning composition student. An important part of music composition is getting your music to paper, and so this course will also develop the students' ability to properly notate their music. This software not only prints professional looking sheet music, it also allows the student to hear their compositions as they are writing them. You can read more about NotePad and download it for FREE at: www.finalemusic.com/NotePadAlthough not a necessity, it is very beneficial that the student have some ability to play the piano (or other instrument)WHAT AM I GOING TO GET OUT OF THIS COURSE?Includes free life-time access to on-line audio samples and quizzes for each lessonBy the end of the course you will be able to compose your own rhythms and melodies.You will also learn how to develop your rhythmic and melodic material through a wide variety of compositional techniques.You will get practice transcribing music (hearing rhythms and melodies and then writing them down in notation form).You will get practice notating music using basic music notation software.WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE?Anyone who has always wanted to learn how to write music!Every student of music!Beginning Composers/SongwritersComposers/Songwriters with previous knowledge or experience who want to brush up and hone their skills (and maybe learn some new techniques!)Although this course uses many examples from classical music, most of the information and compositional techniques learned in this course can be used by musicians of any genre (including rock, pop, and jazz)If you want to deepen your understanding of music, learn to write it!Note: If at any point in this course you have music composition questions that you would like answered or if you would like to have each composition assignment reviewed and commented on, please contact the author at his web site http://www.ComposerJonathanPeters.com about receiving these services for a fee.
Download or read book Music Composition 2 written by Jonathan E. Peters and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[C]overs harmonic composition and compositional form. Concepts are taught through musical examples, reinforced with memory questions, and practiced through composition assignments"--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Fundamental Harmony written by Hugo Norden and published by Crescendo Publishers. This book was released on 1971 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concise Introduction to Tonal Harmony written by L. Poundie Burstein and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contemporary Counterpoint written by Beth Denisch and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Berklee Guide). Use counterpoint to make your music more engaging and creative. Counterpoint the relationship between musical voices is among the core principles for writing music, and it has been central to the study of composition for many centuries. Whether you are a composer, arranger, film composer, orchestrator, music director, bandleader, or improvising musician, this book will help hone your craft, gain control, and lead you to new creative possibilities. You will learn "tricks of the trade" from the masters and apply these skills to contemporary styles. Online audio examples illustrate the principles being discussed, and many recommended listening lists point you to additional examples of how these principles have been used in music over the past thousand years.
Download or read book Hal Leonard Harmony Theory Part 1 Diatonic written by George Heussenstamm and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Instruction). George Heussenstamm, composer of more than 85 published works and author of The Norton Manual of Music Notation , taught college-level theory for several decades. Unable to find what he considered a suitable text, he wrote his own, honing it through practical classroom experience. It is now published for the first time as Hal Leonard Harmony & Theory . This book is designed for anyone wishing to expand their knowledge of music theory, whether beginner or more advanced. The first two chapters deal with music fundamentals, and may be skipped by those with music reading experience. Each chapter contains many examples that clearly illustrate the concepts presented. Written exercises at the end of each chapter allow the reader to test and apply their knowledge. Topics include: basic music-reading instruction; triads in root position; triads in inversion; cadences; non-harmonic tones; the dominant seventh chord; other seventh chords; and more.
Download or read book Basic Music Theory written by Jonathan Harnum and published by Questions Ink. Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basic Music Theory takes you through the sometimes confusing world of written music with a clear, concise style that is at times funny and always friendly. The book is written by an experienced teacher using methods refined over more than ten years in his private teaching studio and in schools. --from publisher description.
Download or read book Harmony Book for Beginners written by Preston Ware Orem and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Theory written by Jonathan E. Peters and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Includes free life-time access to on-line quizzes, exercises and audio examples) Have you ever wondered how the musical scale came about? Or why certain pitches sound better together than others? "Music Theory", by award-winning composer, Jonathan Peters, is a comprehensive course in the study of music. Much more than just memorization of musical terms and definitions...this course explains the "why". WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THIS COURSE? A computer with internet connection, screen, and speakers. No previous musical knowledge is needed. WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE? Any person wanting to learn about music. Beginners to advanced music students.
Download or read book Fundamentals of Musical Composition written by Arnold Schoenberg and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentals of Musical Composition represents the culmination of more than forty years in Schoenberg's life devoted to the teaching of musical principles to students and composers in Europe and America. For his classes he developed a manner of presentation in which 'every technical matter is discussed in a very fundamental way, so that at the same time it is both simple and thorough'. This book can be used for analysis as well as for composition. On the one hand, it has the practical objective of introducing students to the process of composing in a systematic way, from the smallest to the largest forms; on the other hand, the author analyses in thorough detail and with numerous illustrations those particular sections in the works of the masters which relate to the compositional problem under discussion.
Download or read book Music Fundamentals written by Sumy Takesue and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition combines a textbook and integrated workbook with an interactive website for those who want to learn the basics of reading music. Intended for students with little or no prior knowledge of music theory, it offers a patient approach to understanding and mastering the building blocks of musical practice and structure. Musical examples range from Elvis Presley songs to Filipino ballads to Beethoven symphonies, offering a balanced mixture of global, classical, and popular music. The new edition includes: Additional vocabulary features and review exercises Additional musical selections and 1-, 2-, or 3-hand rhythmic exercises The addition of guitar tablature A revised text design that more clearly designates the different types of exercises and makes the Workbook pages easier to write on An improved companion website with added mobile functionality The author’s balanced approach to beginning music theory engages student interest while demonstrating how music theory concepts apply not only to the Western classical canon but also to popular and world music. With the beginner student in mind, Music Fundamentals: A Balanced Approach, Third Edition is a comprehensive text for understanding the foundations of music theory.
Download or read book Understanding Basic Music Theory written by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main purpose of the book is to explore basic music theory so thoroughly that the interested student will then be able to easily pick up whatever further theory is wanted. Music history and the physics of sound are included to the extent that they shed light on music theory. The main premise of this course is that a better understanding of where the basics come from will lead to better and faster comprehension of more complex ideas.It also helps to remember, however, that music theory is a bit like grammar. Catherine Schmidt-Hones is a music teacher from Champaign, Illinois and she has been a pioneer in open education since 2004. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Illinois in the Open Online Education program with a focus in Curriculum and Instruction.
Download or read book Hal Leonard Harmony Theory Part 2 Chromatic written by George Heussenstamm and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Music Instruction). This two-book series includes a wealth of material used to teach harmony and theory in college-level courses by George Heussenstamm, author of the Norton Manual of Musical Notation . Part 2 Chromatic introduces readers to modulation and more advanced harmonies, covering: secondary dominants; borrowed chords; the Neapolitan 6th chord; augmented 6th chords; 9th, 11th and 13th chords; and more. In addition to text, the book features many musical examples that illustrate the concepts, and exercises that allow readers to test and apply their knowledge.
Download or read book Principles of Orchestration written by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
