How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
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How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
Found a great article on how melody and harmony combine to make music!
http://djfrobot.blogspot.com/2010/07/ho ... ne-to.html
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http://djfrobot.blogspot.com/2010/07/ho ... ne-to.html
Peace!
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Re: How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
so, yeah, basically through counterpoint
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Re: How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
yes and no. I always thought counterpoint would be to combine two or more melodies in a way that creates harmonic sense.thefinger wrote:so, yeah, basically through counterpoint
most popular music harmoizes only one melody.
or are my ideas on this totally wrong?
Re: How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
no no you are (in most cases) completely right. though, of course there are times when writing simple harmonization to a lead that counterpoint ideas/solutions/chords will help you get more interesting variations. and certainly most interesting music in modern times does this, even pop. for example, recontextualizing a lead with a different chord progression... basically the same lead with a dfferent harmonization can take on a new meaning.pepezabala wrote:yes and no. I always thought counterpoint would be to combine two or more melodies in a way that creates harmonic sense.thefinger wrote:so, yeah, basically through counterpoint
most popular music harmoizes only one melody.
or are my ideas on this totally wrong?
counterpoint, essentially though, is just a method for structuring harmony at its most basic elements. Harmonizing a lead is another way. This guy seems to be explaining counterpoint through mathemtaical language with some of his own stuff thrown in. which is cool. because the really cool part is that all these methods can be mixed and matched, juxtaposed, whatever you want
my previous comment should be regarded as tongue in cheek. please take it with a grain of salt. it was an interesting article. though i found it needlessly complex at times.
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Re: How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
what I really liked from the article was the idea to visualize chords on a clock scheme.
Can someone please build me a m4l device that does eaxactly this? Output midi on a note-clock-visualization?
Can someone please build me a m4l device that does eaxactly this? Output midi on a note-clock-visualization?
Re: How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
Interesting article but, there seems to be some inaccuracies and/or assumptions.
“Music is a collection of simultaneously occurring melodies, parallel horizontal threads that are held together tightly by short-distance motion.”
I am curious how the author came to this definition for music?
“Music is a collection of simultaneously occurring melodies, parallel horizontal threads that are held together tightly by short-distance motion.”
I am curious how the author came to this definition for music?
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Re: How do harmony and melody combine to make music?
Good post. I wish I could understand all of it, especially the last four or five paragraphs.
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