Music Composition DUMmIES

Dorian .................................................................................................... Figure 6-7 shows the ...

Lydian .................................................................................................... Figure 6-9 shows the ...

Aeolian (natural minor) ....................................................................... Figure 6-11 shows the A Aeolian ...

These modes are good tools for writing tonalmusic (music that conforms to a scale or mode and adheres to a tonal center or key). ...

Notice that although these two scales have a different tonicnote, they share the same five notes: G, A, B, D, and E (which are t ...

The melodic minor scale has different notes when the scale ascends than it does when the scale descends (Figure 6-16). It is lik ...

Write a short melody in a major mode (it could be your own or some- one else’s). Rewrite step 2’s melody in a minor mode. Write ...

68 Part II: Melody and Development ...

Chapter 7 Building Melodies Using Motifs and Phrases In This Chapter
Exploring motifs
Building a melodic phrase
Avoiding bore ...

The Long and Short of Musical Themes: Motifs and Phrases .................. Often a composer’s entire body of work belies a tend ...

If you don’t know thatone, you must have just crawled out from under the rock where you’ve been hiding for at least 200 years. I ...

Remember that a motif is not particularly useful unless it is somewhat self- contained. If you imagine Beethoven’s Fifth without ...

theme in a piece of music, either immediately after the first time it’s played, or somewhere later on in the song. Figure 7-4 sh ...

Another way to spread the phrase across the instrumentation would be to have the two instruments take turns “soloing,” as shown ...

Three ways to give them what they want would be to use the following tools: Rhythmic displacement Truncation Expansion These ...

It’s completely up to you where and when you want to make the cut-off. Expansion ............................................... ...

Write 16 measures using small pieces from Exercise 2. Take one of the phrases resulting from the previous exercises and build o ...

78 Part II: Melody and Development ...

Chapter 8 Chapter 8: Developing Your Melodies ........................................................................... In Thi ...

If we boil down that melody to only the most important pitches on the most important beats, we come up with something like Figur ...