Music Theory For Computer Musicians is geared for those DJs, musicians, and electronic music producers who understand how to play their instruments or create music on the computer, but don't really have an understanding of the musical theory behind what they are doing.
It doesn't matter what kind of music that you are into, the fact is that underneath all music are certain fundamentals that are the same. To write better music, you must have an understanding of these fundamentals and this book will provide them. Music Theory For Computer Musicians is 320 pages and is divided into 26 chapters.
Chapter 1, "Musical Sound," begins by examining noise versus musical sounds. This is where you will learn about pitch, intensity, tone, and note names. Chapter 2, "The Notes," now looks at the notes based on a MIDI keyboard and how they relate to both the white and black keys.
Chapter 3, "The Major Scale," examines how, through the use of scales, you can begin to create music through a linear progression. You will learn of the types of scales and intervals. Chapter 4, "Rhythm, Tempo, and Note Length," now looks at the duration of sound and how it affects music. This chapter focuses on the lengths of notes in a composition.
Chapter 5, "Score Editing," looks at editing your music within musical software through the piano roll or score edit view. Chapter 6, "Intervals," shows you the relationship between notes and how they are used will determine how they sound to the listener.
Chapter 7, "Meter," now looks at how beats are combined into larger units through various methods so sounds can make sense to the ear. Chapter 8, "Chords," are made up of intervals and are used to create musical harmony. You will see how chord progressions work.
Chapter 9, "The Natural Minor Scale," now looks at the other side of the coin – the minor scale, and will give you a better understanding of the main features of the tonal system of Western music. Chapter 10, "Melody and Motives," examines the pitch axis and time axis that make up the melodic lines in music.
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