The Octave Displacement

Author : Matthew Marullo
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595413355

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The Octave Displacement by Matthew Marullo Pdf

When music makes the laws of physics malfunction, then history is at the mercy of. THE OCTAVE DISPLACEMENT Mike Chessel is a musical genius who has discovered the Cosmic Notes, a musical composition whose notes vibrate sympathetically with microscopic structures called "strings," opening up a passage to Antiearth, Earth's cosmic twin. Now humans from forty-two thousand years into the future want those Cosmic Notes. They know the Notes can be used to detonate a weapon far more terrible than ever conceived. To make matters worse, Mike Chessel had played one wrong note making the trip to Antiearth. The physical world around him is now beginning to twist and warp. Anything could happen. Anything. THE OCTAVE DISPLACEMENT reaches beyond the fringes of imagination in a tale interweaving suspense, science fiction, humor, romance, mystery.and a chilling surprise ending. "The Octave Displacement is a highly imaginative work that merges the worlds of science and music so cleverly that one wrong note can mean the difference between life and death." -Vaughn Fritts, published poet.

Author : Jody Fisher
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739025910

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Jazz guitar by Jody Fisher Pdf

Jazz-guitarskole i improvisation.

Author : Glenn Riley
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0739035371

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Progressive Rock Guitar by Glenn Riley Pdf

From the second half of the 20th century into the new millenium, some bands have stretched the limits of rock. The great progressive rock artists of the world such as Yes, Kim Crimson, Queensryche, Dream Theater, and Symphony X have expanded the possibilities, exploring elements of classical, jazz and other styles while maintaining the excitement and edge of rock. This book provides a look at the inner workings of this music, providing the tools and inspiration you need to create your own progressive rock sound. You'll learn fascinating chords, odd time signatures, metric and harmonic modulations, exotic scales and advanced guitar soloing concepts. Finally, here is guidance for the guitarist who's ready to rise above and beyond the confines of simple rock 'n' roll and push the boundaries where few dare to go. The CD demonstrates the examples in the book. 96 pages.

Author : Diana Deutsch
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0122135652

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The Psychology of Music by Diana Deutsch Pdf

On interpreting musical phenomena in terms of mental function

Author : SAL SALVADOR
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781609740214

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Complete Book of Jazz Single-String Studies by SAL SALVADOR Pdf

This is an excellent technique study text. It is divided into two sections. the first, the Art of Single String Soloing, presents concepts and ideas for improvisation. Chord relationships are explored in each key, phrasing and progressions are discussed and a wealth of single string studies are given. Part two, Jazz Single String Studies, presents a thorough grounding in jazz scales and related technique studies. Written in notation with appropriate chord symbols. the aspiring jazz guitarist will gain a wealth of picking technique and linear improvisational ideas by working through and mastering this text.

Author : DAVID BARRETT
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781610655057

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Building Harmonica Technique by DAVID BARRETT Pdf

Offering a comprehensive study of harmonica techniques and blues soloing concepts, this book contains studies and etudes on bending notes (draw and blow), throat vibrato, two-hole shakes, tongue blocking, acoustic and amplified playing, music theory, blues scales, octave substitutions, playing positions, and position substitutes. Intended for the intermediate to advanced diatonic harmonica player, this book provides extensive instruction on lead and accompaniment playing styles. the companion CD includes musical example and play-along songs. Each exercise is played and every full length song is fully accompanied by a blues band. Each large example is played once with harmonica and again with accompaniment only. This book can be used with both diatonic and chromatic harmonica, but us more recommended for the diatonic player.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781476863122

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Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony by Anonim Pdf

(Jazz Book). A study of three basic outlines used in jazz improv and composition, based on a study of hundreds of examples from great jazz artists.

Author : Siglind Bruhn
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0945193955

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Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music by Siglind Bruhn Pdf

In our visually-oriented society, music appears to stand apart from other arts. Yet just as a poet can write a poem whose focus is a painting, so musicians have composed scores based on poems, paintings, and other non-musical art forms. In instrumental music such reinterpretations are especially intriguing as the verbal or visual stimulus does not appear in performance but is rendered in musical form. In this study, Siglind Bruhn investigates how three French composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Olivier Messiaen, express extra-musical subtexts in their piano works. She shows how the relation between the subtexts and the musical works can be broadly catagorized in terms of pictoriality and interiority. In all cases, Bruhn analyzes each musical piece and each source text in its entirety and in depth, drawing on her broad background in both literary and musical interpretation of the twentieth century. For pianists who seek to better understand an individual work, for scholars in the growing field of musical hermeneutics, and for lovers of music in general, this volume explores and makes explicit connections between music and other arts.

Author : Scott McGill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1492156256

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Twelve-Tone Octave Displacement Studies for the Guitar and All Treble Clef Instruments by Scott McGill Pdf

A unique and challenging collection of octave displacement etudes based on the twelve-tone sets of composers such as Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Babbitt, Carter, Stockhausen, and others. Great for the development of virtuoso technique, aural skills, and the extension of compositional/improvisational vocabulary for Guitarists and other Treble Clef instrumentalists. There is also a short section on the octave displacement of more common scales such as Pentatonic, Whole-Tone, and Diminished Scales as well as a brief Double Stops section using twelve-tone sets. A practical text for advanced technical and aural skills development with twelve-tone material, not a theory or analysis treatise. A great addition to any Jazz, Classical, Fusion, or Progressive Rock Musician's practice regimen.

Author : Anton Webern
Publisher : Carl Fischer, L.L.C.
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Songs with piano
ISBN : 9780825856594

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The Anton Webern collection by Anton Webern Pdf

Author : George Perle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520201426

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Twelve-Tone Tonality, Second Edition by George Perle Pdf

The challenge, in twentieth-century music, to the normative status of triadic tonality is one of the most far-reaching and extreme revolutions that the history of music has known. In his classic work, Twelve-Tone Tonality, George Perle argues that the seemingly disparate styles of post-triadic music in fact share common structural elements. According to Perle, these elements collectively imply a new tonality as "natural" and coherent as the major-minor tonality that was the basis of a common musical language in the past. His book describes the foundational assumptions of this post-diatonic tonality and illustrates its compositional functions with numerous musical examples. The second edition of Twelve-Tone Tonality is enlarged by eleven new chapters. Some of these are "postscripts" to earlier chapters, clarifying, elucidating, and expanding upon concepts discussed in the original edition. Others discuss new developments in the theory and practice of twelve-tone tonality, including voice-leading implications of the system and dissonance treatment. Errors discovered in the original edition have been corrected. - Jacket flap.

Author : Ertuğrul Sevsay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107067486

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The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration by Ertuğrul Sevsay Pdf

Demonstrating not only how to write for orchestra but also how to understand and enjoy a score, The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration is a theoretical and practical guide to instrumentation and orchestration for scholars, professionals and enthusiasts. With detailed information on all the instruments of the orchestra, both past and present, it combines discussion of both traditional and modern playing techniques to give the most complete overview of the subject. It contains fifty reduced scores to be re-orchestrated and a wide range of exercises, which clarify complex subjects such as multiple stops on stringed instruments, harmonics and trombone glissandi. Systematic analysis reveals the orchestration techniques used in original scores, including seven twentieth-century compositions. This Guide also includes tables and lists for quick reference, providing the ranges of commonly used instruments and the musical names and terminology used in English, German, Italian and French.

Author : George Perle
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520205185

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The Listening Composer by George Perle Pdf

George Perle takes us into the composer's workshop as he reevaluates what we call "twentieth-century music"—a term used to refer to new or modern or contemporary music that represents a radical break from the tonal tradition, or "common practice," of the preceding three centuries. He proposes that this music, in the course of breaking with the tonal tradition, presents coherent and definable elements of a new tradition. In spite of the disparity in their styles, idioms, and compositional methods, he argues, what unites Scriabin, Stravinsky, Bartók, and the Viennese circle (Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern) is more important than what separates them. If we are to understand the connections among these mainstream composers, we also have to understand their connections with the past. Through an extraordinarily comprehensive analysis of a single piece by Varèse, Density 21.5 for unaccompanied flute, Perle shows how these composers refer not only to their contemporaries but also to Wagner, Debussy, and Beethoven. Perle isolates the years 1909-10 as the moment of revolutionary transformation in the foundational premises of our musical language. He asks: What are the implications of this revolution, not only for the composer, but also for the listener? What are the consequences for the theory and teaching of music today? In his highly original answers, Perle relates the role of intuition in the listening experience to its role in the compositional process. Perle asserts that the post-Schoenbergian serialists have preoccupied themselves with secondary and superficial aspects of Schoenberg's twelve-tone method that have led it to a dead end but he also exposes the speciousness of current alternatives such as chance music, minimalism, and the so-called return to tonality. He offers a new and more comprehensive definition of "twelve-tone music" and firmly rejects the notion that accessibility to the new music is reserved for a special class of elite listeners.

Author : Andy Hill
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781540004826

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Scoring the Screen by Andy Hill Pdf

SCORING THE SCREEN: THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF FILM MUSIC Today, musical composition for films is more popular than ever. In professional and academic spheres, media music study and practice are growing; undergraduate and postgraduate programs in media scoring are offered by dozens of major colleges and universities. And increasingly, pop and contemporary classical composers are expanding their reach into cinema and other forms of screen entertainment. Yet a search on Amazon reveals at least 50 titles under the category of film music, and, remarkably, only a meager few actually allow readers to see the music itself, while none of them examine landmark scores like Vertigo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Patton, The Untouchables, or The Matrix in the detail provided by Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music. This is the first book since Roy M. Prendergast's 1977 benchmark, Film Music: A Neglected Art, to treat music for motion pictures as a compositional style worthy of serious study. Through extensive and unprecedented analyses of the original concert scores, it is the first to offer both aspiring composers and music educators with a view from the inside of the actual process of scoring-to-picture. The core thesis of Scoring the Screen is that music for motion pictures is indeed a language, developed by the masters of the craft out of a dramatic and commercial necessity to communicate ideas and emotions instantaneously to an audience. Like all languages, it exists primarily to convey meaning. To quote renowned orchestrator Conrad Pope (who has worked with John Williams, Howard Shore, and Alexandre Desplat, among others): “If you have any interest in what music 'means' in film, get this book. Andy Hill is among the handful of penetrating minds and ears engaged in film music today.”

Author : Ford Mylius Lallerstedt
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781665747400

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Aspects of Music by Ford Mylius Lallerstedt Pdf

This study focuses on a continued evaluation and integration of Schenker’s work, specifically the role of his ever-deepening understanding of counterpoint in musicalistic structures, both horizontal (melodic) and vertical (‘chordal’). It reformulates the role of this understanding in discerning the atomic, primitive elements of an abstract human species-specific, cognitive-computational process. We conjecture that the fundamental technical concepts of counterpoint plausibly form the basis of natural musical logic and coherence and somehow reflect the basis of a representing system for a generative capacity evidenced in the creation and interpretation of musicalistic expressions. It is plausible to assume that a thorough investigation of the musical generating principles of consonance and dissonance, as developed through the technical perspective of species counterpoint, can lead to surprising insights necessary for the formulation of a general theory of music. Music, like language, is obviously an extremely complex system. Music theory must simplify this complexity and endeavour to discover its primitive elements which can be used to develop a systematic representation of levels that contributes to greater descriptive and explanatory salience of musicalistic structure.