Other Free Educational Matierials For Musicians Part 2

Presentation of basic musical intervals such as major and minor seconds and thirds etc... Also, presents solfeggio as in Do Di Re Ri Mi Fa Fi Sol Si La Li Ti Do and the descending version.




How to build chords by skipping every other note of the scale. Covers only the basic triads Major and minor etc...




Covers how to build diminished and augmented triad chords on the guitar, on piano and in traditional western music notation.




A description of how to make minor and major pentatonic scales.




Discussion of the basic major/minor modal scales.




Discussion explaining how to build major, minor, dominant, diminished and augmented seventh chords.




Explanation of chords which are consonant in a key.

Music and Semantics

Excellent article on music and semantics.

http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans9/reybrouck.htm

I especially like the musical plots expressed as graphics where he "metaphorizes;"

music as an expression of being in a container, expansion of a container, a container in motion, as moving from one container to another, depart and return to a path, taking an alternate path, of reaching a boundary, of breaking through a boundary, of breaking into another container, etc...

Hmmm... Music in a container would be in a certain form such as a passacaglia and perhaps stay in the same mode.

Moving from one container to another would be like changing in the middle of a passacaglia to a Red Hot Chilli Peppers type of tune.

Any other ideas?

Reaching a boundary might be like music developing but stopping short of the next expected development, but still one which might be considered outside of that particular form.

Such as music "progressing" from tonal to rapid changes of tonality, to atonal, to serial, perhaps not finally progressing to microtonal.

Any further suggestions?

I also just read another article about how in language parts of a sentence agree and in music the next motif or phrase will be in the same mode aka in agreement.

In language words can be plural and in music there are repetitions. That is the strategy for making words plural in Bahasa Indonesian. The word for child is anak and the word for children is anak-anak.

In language there are cases and in music there are prefixes, infixes and suffixes which may be similar to expanding or agglutinative transformations.

Another similarity is "dative": object toward which an activity moves. I think of goal tones in jazz.

Conjuctions are formed by transformational similitude.

In my notes I copied that verbs are represented in music by horizontal activity and that in music a noun can be seen as vertical activity.

But upon reflection that seems backwards. A chord has function the way a verb does and has an intrinsic action. That would be vertical not horizontal although chords eventually move horizontally.

I can’t think of a way horizontal activity could represent the "verbs" of music except for perhaps voice leading where in major the P4 wants to go to the M3 etc...