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Logiciel libre d'édition de partitions 6 Open Source Software Projects of (Musical) Notation As it's been pointed out before, there seems to be a sizable overlap between open source hardware and software enthusiasts and amateur musicians. And while some of you are making music through the tried-and-true "let's see what that button does" method, there are a few of you who might be interested in composing music the old-fashioned way -- digitally producing paper-based music sheets. Whether you're writing music for the guitar, learning how to improvise jazz solos, or writing entire music scores, chances are that one of the pieces of open source software listed below can make the process a little easier. Generalized Music Notation Software If you're interested in arranging, composing, or transcribing music, these might be good resources to keep handy. Denemo: Denemo is a music notation program that lets you input music using the number pad on your keyboard and then edit it using your mouse. Guitar-Specific Notation Software Music Theory Software
Frets On Fire Sight-reading Caravaggio's Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1594–96) Terminology[edit] Sight-reading[edit] Authors in music literature commonly use the term "sight-reading" generically for "the ability to read and produce both instrumental and vocal music at first sight ... the conversion of musical information from sight to sound" (Udtaisuk 2005). Udtaisuk and some other authors prefer the use of the more specific terms "sight-playing" and "sight-singing" where applicable. This differentiation leaves a third more restricted use of the term "sight-reading" for the silent reading of music without creating sound by instrument or voice. Highly skilled musicians can sight-read silently; that is, they can look at the printed music and hear it in their heads without playing or singing; see Audiation. The term "a prima vista" is also used, as Italian words and phrases are commonly used in music and music notation. Sight transposition[edit] Sight-playing[edit] Sight-singing[edit] Psychology[edit] Pedagogy[edit]
210 Awesome Open Guitar Chords and How to Use Them - A Kings Mercury Are you bored of the sound of standard chords? Then, using open guitar chords is a way to pimp up your playing and boring chord progressions. There are thousands of open guitar chords and millions of ways to use them creatively. In this post I introduce you to the world of open chords with a brief introduction, a library of 210 open guitar chords and some ideas on how to use them properly. Open chords are chords that have at least one open string like this shape of E-minor x7x087. Within this definition standard chords like C-major x32010 are also open chords because of their open strings. Below you find five din-A4 pages full of guitar chords. 210 to be precise, I counted them. Each row contains a scale or collection of open guitar chords that have the same shape moved around the neck. Remark: Not every open chord sounds even beautiful. Open E major scale: Here the basis shape of the E major chord is moved up and down the neck to form the E major scale in chords. Comments comments
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People by Toby W. Rush This page includes links to each of the individual Music Theory pages I've created in PDF form. This is a work in progress; I am writing new ones regularly and fixing errors and omissions on existing ones as I find them. If you find them useful for your theory studies, you are welcome to use them, and if you find errors or have suggestions, I invite you to contact me. Enjoy! These pages are available for free under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license. This collection is a work in progress, but if you would prefer, you can download all the current pages as a single PDF. If this makes you excited enough that you'd like to purchase a theory-related shirt, hat, bag, button or sticker, visit my T-shirts And Other Stuff page. Music Theory Fundamentals Notation: PitchHow pitch — the "highness" or "lowness" of a sound — is notated on the musical staff. Notation: RhythmOur bizarre (yet universally accepted) method of notating rhythm. Analyzing & Writing IntervalsStill confused?
Chord (music) Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition "Promenade", is a piece showing an explicit chord progression.(Nattiez 1990, p. 218) Play In the medieval era, early Christian hymns featured organum (which used the simultaneous perfect intervals of a fourth, a fifth, and an octave[13]), with chord progressions and harmony an incidental result of the emphasis on melodic lines during the medieval and then Renaissance (15-17th centuries).[7][14] The Romantic period, the 19th century, featured increased chromaticism.[7] Composers began to use secondary dominants in the Baroque, and they became common in the Romantic period.[19] Many contemporary popular Western genres continue to rely on simple diatonic harmony, though far from universally:[20] notable exceptions include the music of film scores, which often use chromatic, atonal or post-tonal harmony, and modern jazz (especially circa 1960), in which chords may include up to seven notes (and occasionally more).[21] Macro analysis for triads on C.
Polychord Bitonal polychord: F major on top of C major.[1] Play The use of polychords may suggest bitonality or polytonality. Polychords: Em, EbM, EbM, and DM over Dm.[8] Play In the polychords in the image above, the 1st, "might well suggest," a thirteenth chord, the 2nd may suggest a, "d minor ninth chord with upper extensions," but the octave separation of the 3rd makes the suggestion of, "two independent triads with their a m9 apart," even more likely, and the 4th is a, "split-third chord For example G7(♯11♭9) (G-B-D-F-A♭-C♯) is formed from G major (G-B-D) and D♭ major (D♭-F-A♭), or The Lydian augmented scale, "has a polychord sound built in,"[10] created by superimposing the Caug and the Emaj ( Play ) and/or F♯dim ( Play ) triads that exist in the scale, this being, "a very common practice for most bop and post-bop players [such as McCoy Tyner] Examples of extended chords include the Elektra chord. See also[edit] Sources[edit] Jump up ^ Pen, Ronald (1992).
Quartal and quintal harmony Four note quartal chord Play . Analysis[edit] Definition[edit] Analytical difficulties[edit] One possible interpretation of a quartal chord: fourth suspension, resolving to dominant seventh and tonic 6/4 chord Play Traditional resolution of suspensions to a major triad and to a minor triad Play History[edit] Precursors[edit] At the beginning of the 20th century, fourth-based chords finally became an important element of harmony. 20th- and 21st-century classical music[edit] Composers who use the techniques of quartal harmony include Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Alexander Scriabin, Alban Berg, Leonard Bernstein, Arnold Schoenberg, Igor Stravinsky, and Anton Webern (Herder 1987, 78). Schoenberg[edit] Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony Op. 9 (1906) displays quartal harmony. Webern, Ives, and Bartók[edit] For Anton Webern, the importance of quartal harmony lay in the possibility of building new sounds. Hindemith[edit] Fourth and fifth writing in the second movement of Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler