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Episode 8 of the Art of Composing Podcast. In this episode, find out why you need to learn about musical form, and what exactly makes musical form so powerful. We also analyze the 1st Movement to …
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Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed the last discussion on direct modulation. If you haven’t seen it you can check it out here. Today we’re going to be taking a look at technique used by composers …
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Voice leading is important. There is no doubt about it. But why? Why should we spend the time to become familiar with this seemingly unconnected side of theory? How many people have come out of …
Do you feel like your understanding of diatonic harmony is missing something? On one hand, it makes sense. I mean, it's only seven chords... right? On the other hand, some composers seem to be …
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Completing the Musical Form Puzzle - Small Binary Form The small binary form is another one of those musical forms that is heard all over the place. Used for hundreds of years and still in use today, …
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Small Ternary Form and Small Binary Form Musical themes don't just stop at sentences and periods. If that was the case, we would be severely limited on the scope of music we could write. There are …
