Music Composition / by Michael Miller
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| | | | | | Music Composition. | | xix, 264 pages : illustrations, music ; 28 cm Complete idiot's guides. | | Includes index. Avant-titre: The complete idiot's guide to. | | Machine derived contents note: Part : Before You Start I -- 1 So You Want to Write Your Own Music 3 -- What kind of composer do you want to be? -- 2 The Composer's Toolkit 13 -- Learn what you need to start writing your own music. -- Part 2: farmonic (omposition 23 -- 3 Composing with Chords 25 -- The easy way to start composing-chords-first! -- 4 Creating More Sophisticated Chord Progressions 41 -- Break out ofyour rut and learn how to create really cool chord -- progressions-and use fancy extended chords. -- Part 3: Melodic Composition 55 -- 5 Understanding Melody 57 -- What makes a great melody sound like a great melody? Read this -- chapter to find out! -- 6 Using Scales and Modes 67 -- Learn how to base your melody on the notes of the major scale -- or the minor scale or the blues scale or the pentatonic scale -- or the Aeolian mode -- 7 Working With a Melodic Outline 79 -- Even complex melodies are easy when you reduce them to their -- most essential tones-and then embellish them. -- 8 Using Rhythm and Syncopation 93 -- Jazz up a boring melody with interesting rhythms! -- 9 Shaping a Melody 103 -- "What kind of contour should your melody have-and why? -- 10 Building Tension and Release 115 -- Add interest to any melody by introducing some sort of tension- -- and then resolving it. -- 11 Harmonizing (and Reharmonizing) a Melody 123 -- Learn how to put chords to any melody-or make the existing -- chords sound more interesting. -- Part 4: Developing the Composition 133 -- 12 Creating Longer Compositions 135 -- Where does your composition go after the first 20 seconds? Learn -- all sorts of ways to create longer compositions. -- 13 Employing Repetition and Variation 147 -- Discover dozens of ways to turn a melodic theme into something -- different-but related. -- 14 Creating Multiple-Voice Compositions 159 -- How do you turn a simple melody line into a composition for mul- -- tiple instruments? Read this chapter to find out! -- Part 5: Advanced Techniques 183 -- 15 Orchestration and Arranging 185 -- Learn how to write for various combinations of instruments and -- voices. -- 16 Working Outside the Basic Key 205 -- Break free of the major scale, using modulations, chromatics, and -- nondiatonic chords. -- 17 Beyond Traditional Composition 217 -- Explore various types of contemporary composition, including -- atonalism, serialism, polytonality, and minimalism. -- 18 Songwriting 225 -- Writing a song is just composing with lyrics-or is it? | | ISBN 9781592574032. | | | | 1. Composition (Music).I. Title II. Series | | Control No. : 29049 | | | Library : UiTM Shah Alam |
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