>mfw somebody calls an instrumental piece of music "song". Hopefully yours too
Gabriel Richardson
>accidentally lean elbow on midi keyboard and play a tone cluster while watching a video >I like it >start playing with my elbow as I do other things with the mouse
What is it like studying music at college? I'm beginning at norwegian college Monday. I play violin if that makes a difference. Also I wondered how exhausting it is to play blowing instruments. How much can they play without breaking down? Brass looks painful to play for more than 10 minutes.
Aaron Long
Anyone got that debussy chart OP talks about
also i like quiet atonal piano pieces like satie and part, know any more about that shit
Hello, I'm a beginner trying to learn music theory. I was hoping some of you could help me.
I wrote a chord progression that goes like this:
C E G B A C E B D A E F F C F A
The first two chords are Cmaj7 and Amin9 I know but what would I call the second two chords?
Also, given that I'm only using "white notes" that means that the song must be in the key of C or Amin right? Assuming it's in C would the chord progression be I vi ii IV
I would appreciate any input on this.
Camden Scott
>Rameau and Marais >Everything else
Caleb Rodriguez
Marais is highly Lullian my friend.
Lucas Wilson
Normies do that hehe
Eli Ortiz
>Rameau and Couperin >Everything else
Xavier Hill
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William Foster
>Also, given that I'm only using "white notes" that means that the song must be in the key of C or Amin right
No, incidentally it is in A minor but axiomatically this is wrong. There are 2 other modes you'd label "major" F Lydian and G Mixolydian. And you'd label "minor" D Dorian, E Phrygian. There is also B "Locrian" which is generally considered a theoretical mode because its missing some crucial elements.
Asher Gutierrez
Okay, what determines whether it's in A or in C, or any of the other modes? This is something that has always confused me, how do you find the root of a particular song given that, as you say, you can play many scales on top of it?
Chase Cook
I'm not that versed in theory but what I do is just get a feel for the sound or else I use a pedal and see which is the most consonant
Jace Williams
>Thats just my style o-okay?
Michael Morales
That's a good tip with the pedal tone. I'll see how that works.
"why he doesn't understand chord relations and functional harmony" he was a major theorist on par with the old masters
Chase Turner
>theorist >never wrote a book
wewlad
Ian Jones
>I'm too retarded to understand his music, therefore it's shit.
Jace Harris
This is not good. Make another one. You need to learn about 4 part writing. That third "chord" is atrocious in how everything just leaps all over with those two notes a half-step apart stacked on top.
Jonathan Rogers
Actually I like his music but its obvious he composed by ear. At least a vast majority of the time. Something like Footprints In The Snow amounts to some virtuistic meandering at best.
Asher Wood
>I like his music >say he was dropped on his head
[Backpedalling Intensifies]
Christian Robinson
Welcome to Sup Forums sporto.
Blake Sullivan
how many books on theory did Bach write? Or Wagner?
Henry Brown
Umm, user I...
James Green
Didn't think that had really any music theory in it, thought it was mostly dramaturgy.
What does it have to do with music theory, particularly chord relations and harmony? Nothing
Andrew Allen
Oh I didn't say Wagner was a music theorist
Mason Lopez
so you say he didn't contemplate on music's possibilities all the time?
Matthew Edwards
>Actually I like his music but its obvious he composed by ear Everyone composes by ear. Anyway, the harmonic content in his music is actually very logical, even if they're not standard.
Blake Reed
All music are songs stupid.
Daniel Wilson
Functional harmony is not a requirement. Composing by the rules of music theory is not a requirement. Neither of these things will make your music any more exceptional if you have bad taste.
Joshua Barnes
he didn't tabulate those contemplations. He didn't organize them into a formal pedagogical framework
Nicholas Russell
Is Albert Huybrechts the most underrated composer? A fucking professional darts player with the same name has more content on youtube than him.
>implying I said anything about Bach >implying I wasn't just pointing out how the fact that you automatically think of Bach's most famous cantata when you hear "German Baroque" was an indication of your dilettante-ness youtube.com/watch?v=ISgCHFDvbM4 youtube.com/watch?v=1_2PF7AC2hI
I can't believe this was ever performed more than once. Once you get the idea, what's the point?
Christopher Nelson
to prank the audience
Aiden Sullivan
there wasn't even a point before anyone got the idea because the idea is trash for upper middle class twits
Zachary Russell
well, it's easy money
Jaxson Parker
the idea is fine but it really should just be viewed as an exemplary piece in a musical aesthetics textbook now its le quirky piece to play for music appreciation class who wont suspect a thing ex dee
>famous things are automatically bad Of course my friend
Justin Gray
The point is to make you ask what the point is.
Jackson Gonzalez
>now class, sit still and be quiet, i'm sure you can for 5 minutes Waahh! what's the point
Jaxon Lopez
>Ever since Haydn's day the string quartet has been considered a prestigious form and represents one of the true tests of the composer's art. With four parts to play with, a composer working in anything like the classical key system has enough lines to fashion a full argument, but none to spare for padding. The closely related characters of the four instruments, moreover, while they cover in combination an ample compass of pitch, do not lend themselves to indulgence in purely colouristic effects. Thus, where the composer of symphonies commands the means for textural enrichment beyond the call of his harmonic discourse, and where the concerto medium offers the further resource of personal characterization and drama in the individual-pitted-against-the-mass vein, the writer of string quartets must perforce concentrate on the bare bones of musical logic. Thus, in many ways the string quartet is pre-eminently the dialectical form of instrumental music, the one most naturally suited to the activity of logical disputation and philosophical enquiry.
How long does it take to become a professional brass player? According to wikipedia Christian Lindberg began when he was 17 and became pro 2 years later >inb4 talent meme
