Composition (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

John Stainer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330377222 ISBN 13 : 9781330377222

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This little work is only intended for beginners. It is a collection of hints both to masters and pupils as to the course which should be pursued in the hrst steps towards the art of Composition.

Any child or young person who has thoroughly mastered the author's "Harmony Primer" will be quite capable of commencing this book immediately. In extenuation of the many shortcomings which will no doubt be discovered in it by competent critics, the author wishes to plead that he has attempted to work out his scheme without following or imitating any previous writer. He has purposely omitted any concise or definite rules on modulation, because he conceives that it is better that it should be learned in the process of harmonising melodies than by " short-cuts " committed to memory. Pupils who have been made familiar with such "short-cuts " usually jump into a new key by their means, and fail to master that gentle and interesting leaning towards the new tonality which is so characteristic a portion of the best type of modulation.

Experienced masters will, it is hoped, substitute other exercises, or add to those already given, whenever they may consider such changes beneficial to their pupils. The examples have been taken from works within easy reach of all, in order that pupils may be able to examine the context.

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Areas Covered:

CHAPTER I. First Steps — How to write down music from dictation

CHAPTER II. How to harmonise, one note of melody, two notes (with final tonic chord), four notes

CHAPTER III. How to harmonise the degrees of the major scale when in a melody — Final cadences

CHAPTER IV. How to harmonise the degrees of the minor scale when used in a melody — Final cadences — Exercises — Table of harmonies of the major scale; of the minor scale

CHAPTER V. Melody — Outline and rhythm — Contrast and parallelism — Simple form of sentence — Responsive section — Extension of sentences — Analysis of a motive or theme — Middle cadences

CHAPTER VI. Rhythm — Its nature and function — Simplest form of rhythm — Progressive forms of rhythm — Silence in rests a portion of rhythm — Combination of rhythms — Polyphonic music often polyrhythmic — Expansion of rhythm — Sentences may commence at any portion of a bar — Exercises on rhythm

CHAPTER VII. Sentences are of various lengths — Links between sentences — Preliminary announcement of rhythm sometimes external to sentence — Combinations of principal rhythms — Phrasing — Combination of principal and subordinate rhythms — Accompaniments

CHAPTER VIII. Broken harmony — Hints as to grammar — Exercises — Analysis of simple song-forms — Introductions to songs — First attempt at pure instrumental writing

CHAPTER IX. Concise account of sonata-form — Development ; its nature — Exercises — Analyses of various movements — Conclusion

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330377222
• ISBN 13: 9781330377222
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 152
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