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Music Composition For Dummies
Music Composition For Dummies explains how to use music theory to write music in a variety of forms. It introduces basic chord construction and shows the reader how to compose music with both chords and melody, develop simple melodic motifs and themes into longer compositions, arrange compositions, create scores, and select the right instruments and voicing to express musical ideas. Music Composition For Dummies also shows you how to create popular songs, classically structured pieces, film and television scores, videogame soundtracks, and more using both traditional and improvisational techniques.


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Title of ebook: Music Composition For Dummies
ISBN: 9780470289938
parent-ISBN: 9780470224212
Publisher: For Dummies
Internet download file size: 8563 kb
Pages: 336
Published: 02-2008
Released online for download: 02-13-2008
Author of eBook: Jarrett, Scott
Author of eBook: Day, Holly
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Music Composition For Dummies


Chapter One

Thinking Likea Composer

In This Chapter

* Finding freedom in restraint

* Joining the ranks of those who create something from nothing

* Getting to know a few rules of composition

* Some things to remember before you get started

Music is the one art form that is entirely defined by time. Once a piece of music is finished being performed, technically, when the last of its echoes fades, it's gone. Each piece of music is literally sandwiched in silence, or external noise, and if your listeners aren't paying attention, they're going to miss it.

Your job, of course, is to make them pay attention.

Limitations as Freedom

Going further, music can be considered to be the sculpting of time. You can think of your three minutes - or half hour, or 36 hours - as a block waiting to be chiseled into a specific shape that's meant to tell a story or convey an emotion. You just have to figure out which carving technique(s) will work best to get your particular idea acr ... read full excerpt from Music Composition For Dummies ebook



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