guitarguy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hmm interesting. Tonal meaning a scale harmonized > in triads or dominant chords right? No. Tonal means "key-based". The major/minor key system. But it also means a specific style that uses (or used) functional harmony to establish those key centers. > > Is there is room for a circle 5by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Just to make an easier comparison to Am - no flats versus 7 flats.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
You need to learn about keys. In Abm, there is no 'E'. It's Fb. It's not "#5", it's just plain old '6' in the scale (which in minor, we often call "b6"). A B C D E F G = A minor Ab Bb Cb Db Eb Fb Gb = Ab minor. Notice there's just a flat in front of everything.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Guitarguy, For the centuries that led up to the Baroque period (begins ca 1685), which includes the Middle Ages and Renaissance, we do not use Roman Numeral Analysis. Why? Because the music is not tonal music. Outwardly, it appears to be similar to the uninitiated. Likewise, it does in fact share many common elements: Renaissance music and Baroque music both have notes, chords, rhythmby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Sorry, that's all Greek to me.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Learn music from music, not books. Ideas can come from any source, and books can be great for giving you ideas you might not have otherwise thought of - but so will listening to diverse music.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Sounds to me like this: G - F - Ab - G C - C - C - C Basically, the C is held throughout, and the upper note moves. The line that starts with G is repeated below, but moves down when the other moved up, so all together: G - F - Ab - G C - C - C - C G - Ab - F - G C - C - C - C In Ab, this is Eb - Db - Fb - Eb Ab - Ab - Ab - Ab and again, the lower stuff with thby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
maciekrogowiec Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It looks like I won't be getting any help on this > forum anymore :( > All the best. Man it was only like two hours later. Give it a chance. This is a small forum with not a huge amount of members, and many of us are in different places - and different time zones in the world.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
I remember this too - but it had to be here or TGP because I never went to Harmony Central (though it could have been there as well of course).by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Let's be careful here gentlemen... In Bach's day, Piccolo Trumpet became an extremely virtuosic instrument. There's a famous Haydn Trumpet Concerto (though close to 1800)! It is true that the Brass's role in Orchestral music was one of punctuation and things like fanfares and hunting calls - "militaristic" music, etc. But as a solo instrument, the Trumpet at least certainlyby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Pythagoras (or rather, his "school") and other Greek folks were serious mathematicians! They figured out everything. In fact, many schools held the belief that everything in nature can be (and even should be) described mathematically. So they played around with junk. They noticed that shortening the string raised the pitch, so they would very naturally want to shorten it not juby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
It might help if you said what song "a song" is.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Why do you have to do this? This sounds like a homework assignment. We're not going to do your homework for you. If you're taking a class, these are things you should have learned. I think the members here are more than willing to help you, but we're not going to do it for you. You won't learn anything that way.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Jazz is jazz. "Concert Music" is something else, though each have picked up elements of the other. But I think of Jazz in general as "pop music" (even though there are some artsy jazz works) rather than what composers compose.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
You might start here: Both of those aren't too expensive. But you should investigate Cope, Lester, Straus, etc. for more recent books (I think the Persechitti was written mid-century). Steveby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
The lower note would be written in figured bass (on the staff). If we were to use that, our symbol would (or should) look like "bVI" not VI for example - IOW the Roman Numeral should carry the alteration. In C Major, Gb-Bb-Db-E would need figures with accidentals on the Bb and Db (the Gb would be written) but not the E. In C Minor the Gb would be written as well, but the Db aby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
scottrossonline Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm trying to learn jazz piano, and I have a Real > Book. Many of the chord names are unfamiliar to > me, and I'm not sure which notes are in the chord. > Is there a tool available where I could enter > these complicated chord names and it will tell me > what notes are in the chord? >by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
JonR Wrote: > > But - sorry to ask again - can you critique my > thought process on that 3rd example, at least to > check I'm understanding the symbols right - as > they conventionally should mean, even if they're > used wrongly here: > > Vo6(+)/IV > 5/b > Assume Vo means the diminished chord and > not the V itself - ie the figures refer to the &by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
If I could only win a pulitzer!by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
I think I have it figured out. Assume C Major throughout: The middle one with "2". That would be assumed to be in 4/2 inversion, thus: Db-E-G-Bb However, that chord would have to resolve to IV6/4, not IV6. The inversions of the viio7 that move to IV6 are 6/5 and 4/3. So that means, that the inversion is taken from the V chord! So follow my logic here: V6/5 of IV meansby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
The video won't let me jump ahead and I can't stand to listen to it to wait until that time. Diatonic 10ths means he's playing the interval of a 10th, such as D to the F an octave above. Usually, one would say "parallel 10ths" if they're moving about, which means D/F would move to E/G to C/E and back to D/F for example. It is essentially like one hand is playing a D minor scale, wby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
I couldn't see the images - it wanted me to log in first.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Yes, it's not a figured bass symbol. And it's obviously created by someone who either knows nothing of standard nomenclature or is trying to develop their own. As such, unless further details in decoding these hieroglyphics are included in the source material, there is no way to answer it other than supposition.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
I've only heard a very small amount of Mahler, and what little I've heard I found not to my liking. What I heard was what I've come to consider the typical "Romantic Behemoth" - basically everything overblown to the point of a self-parody. It's not *that* bad, but there is a certain - what shall I say - self-indulgence or narcissim about it. But I've listened to *very* little of iby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
You can't tell the key of a song without hearing it or seeing it in a musical context. Your piece has chords in it that are closest to the Keys of C Major, or A minor. But it could be in a mode, or other possibilities. The first question you need to answer is, what chord sounds like "home". That chord is most likely the tonic chord, if the music is in a key. If the Am soundby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Who gave you the assignment? If they didn't specifically say anything, I'd assume a straight-ahead Rondo form. Did they say 5-part or 7-part rondo form?by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
tt Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In 6/16, what receives one beat? a dotted 8th note.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
RowyVH Wrote: > > Young musicians and composers come here for > advise. They mostly need to know how to handle > good ol' harmony. You send them into the woods > without a light and without breadcrumbs. That I do > not like. You're new here so I'll let it slide.by stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
ohdearme Wrote: > > I suppose Steve, that is what you meant? Is it? > Yes, but I don't know if it means quite the same thing - though I chuckled profusely at Jon's "translation"! I meant it to mean a falsehood; something inaccurate. Bestby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers
Novaliz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I was convinced that I > must think wrong or to narrow because I thought > that all pop or EDM music has to be written in > minor (natural, harmonic or melodic) or major with > the "gravitional centre" of the keynote > (considering both: melody and harmonic structure). > > Can > soby stevel - Music Theory Questions and Answers