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. 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. Notation: MeterThe concept of "the beat" and how it is notated in music. BeamingNobody knows beaming like Sparky knows beaming. The Major ScaleIntroducing the major scale, one of the most common "palettes" of music composition. Key SignaturesNot the kind you sign your credit card receipt with, though I suppose you could try it.
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Harmony practice 3 Simple entry positioning:set the current voice - bass, tenor, alto, soprano, then select a note, or rest, and click a position in the score. Should the entry result incorrect, keep the mouse button down, or click the entry again, and drag it to the desired location. Alternatively, select the repitch tool (an orange coloured arrow in the Accessory tools palette) and perform dragging. Simple entry erasing: set the current voice - bass, tenor, alto, soprano, then right click an entry, select Delete item from the fast menu. Selection: partial and whole measure selection is allowed.
musiqu'azimuts La voix est d’abord, pour les êtres sociaux que nous sommes, vecteur de la parole. Elle véhicule du sens, assure la communication. Mais la voix est aussi un instrument, et la première source de musique. Schoenberg : Blauer Blick I La musique de la voix : Il n’y eut point d’abord d’autre musique que la mélodie, ni d’autre mélodie que le son varié de la parole (J.J. La musique se niche dans la voix parlée : ceux qui possèdent l’oreille absolue le savent, qui entendent malgré eux la musique de la parole, les notes de chaque son de la voix. Dans les 3 grandes religions monothéistes, cette récitation fait appel à la musicalité du texte : on ne « chante » pas une mélodie, mais la lecture à voix haute, en soulignant les inflexions du texte, en s’appuyant sur la musicalité de la langue, devient psalmodie, ou cantillation La voix s’appuie souvent sur un ton rectiligne , auquel on apporte des nuances et des accents codifiés qui éclairent le texte et conduisent à une écoute priante. ( AlaBml )
LilyPond – Music notation for everyone: LilyPond... music notation for everyone Les Voix de l'op ra - Le Voyage Lyrique - Initiation op ra - Cours et conf rences La Voix La voix humaine est au fondement même de l’opéra, c’est un instrument bien étrange et unique. Chaque homme ou femme naît avec un certain type de voix, qui peut ensuite évoluer avec l’âge et les rôles choisis, pour le meilleur ou pour le pire. Certains affirment que tout le monde serait capable de chanter de l’opéra, pour peu que vous trouviez un professeur de chant assez bon pour vous aider à travailler votre voix dans le bon sens . Les types de voix La tessiture est l'ensemble des notes qui peuvent être émises par une voix de façon homogène (même volume, même qualité de timbre et d'harmoniques,). D’autre facteurs sont également à prendre en compte dans la qualification d’une voix : couleur et qualité de timbre (clair, sombre), puissance, souplesse, capacité d’endurance du chanteur etc. On distingue traditionnellement plusieurs classifications de voix qui peuvent ensuite être affinées en fonction de différents facteurs. Les voix de femmes : C’est la voix de femme la plus aiguë.
Denemo | Free and Open Music Notation Editor 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
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). 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. According to Payne (2005), "the ability to hear the notes on the page is clearly akin to music reading and should be considered a prerequisite for effective performance.... Sight transposition[edit] Sight-playing[edit] According to Udtaisuk, "many [authors] use the term sight-reading for instrumental sight-reading performance." Sight-singing[edit] Psychology[edit] Professional use[edit]
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. Harmonic parallelism may suggest bichords. 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
Scale (music) Pattern of intervals in the C-major scale Play A measure of the width of each scale step provides a method to classify scales. For instance, in a chromatic scale each scale step represents a semitone interval, while a major scale is defined by the interval pattern T–T–S–T–T–T–S, where T stands for whole tone (an interval spanning two semitones), and S stands for semitone. Based on their interval patterns, scales are divided into categories including diatonic, chromatic, major, minor, and others. Scales are typically listed from low to high. The notes of a scale are numbered by their steps from the root of the scale. A single scale can be manifested at many different pitch levels. for example: diatonic, chromatic, whole tone or by the number of different pitch classes they contain: "The number of the notes that make up a scale as well as the quality of the intervals between successive notes of the scale help to give the music of a culture area its peculiar sound quality The lydian mode –G♯.