Tag: COMPOSING AND MUSIC THEORY
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Solfege / Solfeggio
General – A Technique where you Assign a “Syllable” to Each Note in a Musical Scale – Solfeggio is Based on Do-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La-Ti and Adds “Functional Sound-Names” to All 12 Keys (Respective Scale Notes) Scale Degree 1 = Do Scale Degree 2 = Re Scale Degree 3 = Mi Scale Degree 4 = Fa Scale Degree…
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Steps (Counterpoint)
– is a Intervallic Distance – any Movement using Half or Whole Steps (Not Larger than a 2nd) – also Called “Conjunct” Motion – more Natural than Disjunct (Leaps), since it is more Closely to the Scale and to the Human Voice
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Textures
General – “Musical Texture” is the Way in which Rhythm, Melody and Harmony are Combined (also Known as “Gestures”) – Refers to the Number of Different Melodies Present in a Given Section of Music and the Relationship between those Melodies – Basically “How Much is Going On in the Music at Any Given Moment” –…
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Time Signatures
– In Notation you see usually see a Fraction which is Placed after both, The Clef and the Key Signature – Top Number = How many Beats are in a Measure , Bottom Number = The Note Value that is considered to be a Beat – We use a Time Signature for easier Notation and…
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Transposition (Song / Key)
General – Take a Song or a Group of Notes in Whatever Key its In and Put it In Any New Key in the Chromatic Scale – can be to Accommodate the Song to a Key that Works well for the Singers Voice (Tessitura) – or to Express the Emotion of a Song better through…
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Twelve Tone Split
General – means to Split the 12 Chromatic Half Steps Equally between the 2 Hands – this Wild Combination can be Played together, LG then RH or in Various Splits – Sounds like a Piano Falling Down the Stairs – the Difference to Schoenberg’s Atonal 12 Tone Approach of is to go Quicker through the…
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Voice Leading
– the Term as such comes from the Choral Music, but Applies to Chord Progressions in All Sorts of Arrangements – it is the Approach of How Chords can be Connected in a Harmonic Progression – i.e. the Manner in which Each Voice in One Chord Transitions to the Corresponding Voice in the Subsequent Chord…