Music

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Music MOC

Basics

• Melody
• Harmony
• Chord

Composition

Melody writing

• What makes a good melody?
• Developing a melody
• Guidelines for writing musical phrases
• Melodic punctuation

Motifs:

• Definition of motif
• What makes a good motif?
• Varying a motif
  • Sequencing
  • Augmentation and diminution
  • Intervallic expansion and compression
  • Truncation
  • Expansion
  • Displacement
  • Retrograde
  • Inversion
  • Change of tonality
  • Octave transfer
• Leitmotifs:
  • Using a leitmotif

Structures for melodies:

• Sentence
• Period

Kinds of melodies:

• Themes

Chord progressions

• Definition
• Harmonic Function – the natural tendencies for how chords move
• Spicing things up…
  • Secondary dominants
    • Extended dominant series
  • Tritone substitutions
    • Interpolated chords
    • Related IIs
  • Deceptive resolutions

Form

• Overview
• Small structure form
  • Small ternary form
• Large structure form

Orchestration

TODO, things like:

• Instrument families
• Individual instruments
• Concepts in orchestration

Arranging

TODO – different from “Orchestration” in what ways? (Popular styles like jazz, funk, soul…)

Production

TODO – different from “Arranging” for styles like pop that I actually like (e.g. Dua Lipa). Much less technical from a theory standpoint.

Mixing

Compression

• Compression
• Types of compressors:
  • VCA
  • FET
  • Optical
  • Tube

Editing

• Zero crossing

EQ

• EQ
  • Minimum phase EQ

Mastering

Analog-to-digital

• Continuous vs discrete signals
• Bit depth
• Sampling
• Quantization

Literature

• Analyzing Classical Form
• TODO: richards-2016