Musical Techniques by Paret, Dominique -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Table of Contents Title Copyright Preface Introduction PART 1: Laying the Foundations

Introduction to Part 1 1 Sounds, Creation and Generation of Notes

2 Generation of Notes

2.1. Concept of octave 2.2. Modes of generation/creation/construction of notes 2.3. Physical/natural generation of notes 2.4. Generation of perfect fifth notes 2.5. Important remarks on “physical”/“fifths” generation 2.6. Generation of tempered notes 2.7. In summary and in conclusion on generation of notes 2.8. Comparison of gaps between all the notes thus created

3 Recreation: Frequencies, Sounds and Timbres

4 Intervals

4.1. Gap/space/distance/interval between two notes 4.2. Measuring the intervals 4.3. Intervals between notes 4.4. Overview of the main intervals encountered 4.5. Quality of an interval 4.6. Reversal of an interval 4.7. Commas…ss

5 Harshness, Consonance and Dissonance

5.1. Consonance and dissonance 5.2. Harshness of intervals 5.3. Consonance and dissonance, tension and resolution of an interval

PART 2: Scales and Modes

Introduction to Part 2 6 Scales

6.1. Introduction to the construction of scales 6.2. Natural or physical scale 6.3. Pythagorean or physiological diatonic. scale 6.4. Major diatonic scale 6.5. The other major scales 6.6. Scales and chromatic scales 6.7. Tempered scale 6.8. Other scales 6.9. Pentatonic scale 6.10. “Blues” scale 6.11. Altered scale and jazz scale 6.12 “Tone-tone” (whole-tone) scale 6.13. Diminished scale or “semitone/tone” scale 6.14. In summary 6.15. Technical problems of scales

7 Scales, Degrees and Modes

7.1. Scales and degrees 7.2. Degree of a note in the scale 7.3. Interesting functions/roles of a few degrees of the scale 7.4. Modes

PART 3: Introduction to the Concept of Harmony: Chords

Introduction to Part 3 8 Harmony

8.1. Relations between frequencies 8.2. How are we to define the concept of harmony?

9 Chords

9.1. The different notations 9.2. Chords 9.3. Diatonic chords 9.4. “Fourth-based” chords 9.5. Chord notations 9.6. What do these chords sound like? 9.7. Temporal relations between chords 9.8. Melody line 9.9. Peculiarities and characteristics of the content of the chord 9.10. Relations between melodies and chords 9.11. The product of the extremes is equal to the product of the means

PART 4: Harmonic Progressions

Introduction to Part 4 10 Some Harmonic Rules

10.1. Definition of a chord and the idea of the color of a chord 10.2. A few harmonic rules 10.3. Conclusions on harmonic rules

11 Examples of Harmonic Progressions

11.1. Harmonic progressions by descending chromatism 11.3. Hundreds, thousands of substitution progressions… 11.4. Chromatism in “standards” 11.5. Families of descending chromatisms

12 Examples of Harmonizations and Compositions

12.1. General points 12.2. Questions of keys 12.3. Example of reharmonization 12.4. Example of harmonization 12.5. Conclusion

Conclusion

Appendix: Acoustic (Harmonious) Effects

A.1. Stereophonic effect A.2. Effect of vibrato A.3. “Tremolo” effect A.4. Doppler effect A.5. Effect of complete or partial detuning: example: a tack piano A.6. Chorus effect (often used with strings – violins, etc.) A.7. Phasing effect A.8. Flanging effect

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