Music Composition DUMmIES

would reveal or describe the character’s plans to lead a completely different life — which, in the case of Don Giovanni, has dis ...

In general, the overall length of a piece is dependent on the ability to keep the listener’s interest throughout. Compositions i ...

Write an ending for the preceding two exercises. For example, I sent a memo to my boss saying, ‘see you in Cancun’. Put this id ...

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Chapter 13 Musical Forms In This Chapter
Dividing music into parts
Looking at a couple of classical forms
Checking out popula ...

One-part form: A ................................................................................. The one-part form — diagramme ...

Song form: ABA ................................................................................... Songstructure is frequently b ...

Classical Forms ............................................................................................ Before the Renaissa ...

Note the different key and time signature used in the B part shown in Figure 13-4, compared to the A part in Figure 13-3. The th ...

Concerto .............................................................................................. In a concerto, a compose ...

Minimalism .......................................................................................... Minimalistmusic is a moder ...

12-bar blues The most common type of blues is the 12-bar blues, which is often constructed like this: IIII IV IV I I V IV I V/I ...

24-bar blues The 24-bar blues progression is very similar to the 12-bar form, except that the time each chord progression is pla ...

Verse-chorus Today, the most widely used form in pop music is the verse-chorus form. Verse-chorus pop songs are laid out like th ...

and wind instruments. In Dixieland jazz, for example, musicians take turns playing the lead melody on their instruments while th ...

In this 12-tone system, Schoenberg believed that no tone should be more important than another in a musical composition. All 12 ...

If you are careful about what music you expect from which instruments in your composition, you could write atonally using improv ...

Sometimes figuring out what to call a particular chord can be a challenge when working in the atonal realm because often a singl ...

To hear some atonal music, we suggest listening to any of Bela Bartok’s string quartets or Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4, for st ...

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