Music Composition DUMmIES

Chapter 19 Chapter 19: Composing for Other Musicians.............................................................. In This Chapt ...

Most guitar-centric or popular music magazines publish at least one or two lead sheets per issue, ones that are usually based on ...

Composing with Guitar Tablature .............................................................. A distinct type of lead sheet, de ...

If you’re writing a piece for a bass, you would write out something like Figure 19-3. Next, you write numbers on the lines to sh ...

You might see the same chord written out something like Figure 19-6. Writing tab like Figure 19-6 would mean you want your guita ...

Following is a list of the extra letters and symbols most often used in guitar tablature: What to write What it means H Hammer-o ...

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As you can see, this is a multi-instrumental score, meant for a large ensemble to play. Generally, the only people who would see ...

on the staff itself, but the chords and major and minor keys all have different names. Because the majority of classical music h ...

Table 19-1 Note Names in Different Languages English Italian German/Dutch French Cdo C ut C sharp do diesis Cis ut dièse D flat ...

As you can see, the French and the Italian note names follow the solfege tra- dition of the 11th century Roman Catholic Church. ...

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In this part... W e share some of our favorite composers, books, and musical periods with you. We also talk about some of the ca ...

Chapter 20 Ten Composers You Should Know About In This Chapter
Surveying some of the more extraordinary composers
Spanning cen ...

Monteverdi became known as a leading advocate of the then radical approach to harmony and text expression. In 1613, Monteverdi w ...

By the 1920s, Ives had experimented with practically every important musical innovation that would still be considered new music ...

From 1905 on, Bartók considered the documentation of rural folk music his true calling in life. He recorded thousands of example ...

from one movement to the next, almost as though he was presenting an entirely different song. These lurches from one symphonic m ...

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association used Hoe-Downas the background music to their marketing campaign, “Beef ... it’s what’s fo ...