Posts from the ‘Theory and Harmony’ Category
In part III we began to develop the harmony with some voice leading and got as far as the following. Audio for Figure 4 With a similar approach we could now just harmonise every note of the melody, which you can see in the figure below. Figure 5 – solo piano Figure 5 – piano [...]
Approaches To Arranging: Developing Harmony – Part II In Part I of this article series, I demonstrated how primary triads of the major scale could be applied to a popular melody as functional harmony and how the triads of the rest of the major scale could be used to fill in the gaps to create [...]
A Brief Guide To The Modern Orchestra History The orchestra as you see and hear it today has quite a history behind it; it has evolved, grown, and shrunk over time according to advancement in both technology and music. In the grand scheme of music and it’s history, the establishment of the western orchestral ensemble [...]
Approaches To Arranging: Developing Harmony – Part 1 The starting point of any adventure in producing an arrangement would be to have a good idea on what you wish to achieve. What is the purpose of your arrangement? The answer to this question alone will determine how you can go about arranging and it is [...]
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Introduction to Arranging The process of musical arrangement refers to the adaptation of a melody and/or its harmony for an instrument or suite of instruments. The earliest examples of arrangement can be found in classical music. A popular compositional technique was to arrange or incorporate traditional melodies, or folk tunes, into an original composition. For [...]
Introduction to Orchestration The term “orchestration” can be defined as a description of the general way in which a harmony is played, or more specifically, the instrumentation used for a piece of music. More commonly, orchestration is understood to be the composition, transcription or arrangement of music for performance by an orchestra. The latter definition [...]
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