Peace, Love and Harmony.
UNIT 14 DAY 1 - Atomic Sound, Areas and Gravitation.Harmony is based on how the notes sound in relation with other notes.
All this happens within a Tonality of Modality and in Western Music also within a chord progression. As we will see at the end of this unit, this not only happens with pitches, but also with form and rhythms, with ensembles and intensities.
There are three tonal areas: tonic, Subdominant and Dominant. The Subdominant Area is so weak that we can practically reduce the number of Areas to Tonic and Dominant. Or what is the same; stability and tension. Imagine a system where the gravitational center is in the Tonic. All Music will tend to that note-chord. If in a composition Tonic is maintained all along, the sound of that Music would tired the ears of the listeners, so it is necessary to create tension. This will produce a relief when Music returns to Tonic and the Dominant part would be the interesting part of the piece. There are kinds of Music such as chamber and symphonic Music and Jazz that make the Dominant Area the Queen of the sonic adventure. UNIT 14 DAY 2 - Major - Minor relatives and parallelism.Each major Tonic has a relative minor and each Major scale has a parallel Minor scale.
This first Minor Relative is what in 'Classical' Music is called Major key and Minor key.
If we extend this concept, any major chord can have a relative minor and any tonal area (based on major chords) can have a parallel with the other two (major or minor). UNIT 14 DAY 3 - Modal Complex and Harmonic Progressions.The major scale generates six other major and minor scales. If we extend those scales and chords, we have other modalities that can be associated to Tonic, Subdominant and Dominant.
For every Leading-tone we create to go to an specific chord, we open another modal complex, so this process is an extension of the Tonality, but always within the Dominant Area.
If music is reduced to three harmonic areas (knowing the weak possition fo the Subdominant area), Music can be written by arranging and shuffling them, having the following permutations: Tonic-Subdominant Dominant-Tonic Subdominant-Tonic UNIT 14 DAY 4 - Harmony for all the elements.There is not only harmony on pitches. Any other Music element has proportions and therefore can be harmonious. For example, the Musical Form usually have a number of bars that are multiple of each other. There is harmony in the way of setting the musical ensembles with instruments that together work better. More examples of harmony applied to other Musical elements we can find in intensity. Like in any painting, proportion and the range of 'colors' is a key element and Music uses this harmonic proportions to create harmonious layers of sound. Rhythm is also harmonic. The ratios between the rhythmic figures and the rhythmic 'cells' of a melody are consistent with the structure of the phrase. Images taken from Hanon Online, Andy's Words and Pictures, 123rf, Wikipedia (1, 2, 3), imgarcade, Hackea el Aula, O'Reilly, David Darling, David Wallace, Designinfographics, Metro, Tywi, Daily Mail, SoYouWanna, Steph Aaronson, Discard Studies, South by Sunset, Flickr, Kotaku, GagDonkey, QuieroDibujos, Rgbstock, Flute-a-bec, Bivem, En clave de música, IES Marqués de Santillana, Image and Art, Arte Creativo Total, Discapnet, Anonadatos, Ludoforum, Invited Life, Wikipedia, SmartArt Microsoft Office: Word 2007, blogtatuajes, forwallpaper, Earsinus,.Schollen Collection, Ancient Greek notation, Music of Yesterday, Wikipedia, Wikipedia, Smithsonian, Choirly, Wikipedia, OKNation, Medi-Music, Chmtl, All Music Sheet, White Hot, Moc, Mercado Libre, Learning Encounters, As Seen On The Internet, Valdosta, Lien Bui, Cosas sencillas, David Maestre, Britishkingdom's Blog, Sala de música, Unicentro, Coro Monumental de Guadalajara, La música es bella, Mediateca de EducaMadrid, RubyCliff, Christ Hind, Wikipedia, Music Zone,Guitar Forums, Euskomedia, Sengpielaudio, Redlands College, Laura Intravia, Memorising Music, Fluttery Records, Tickets Move Mag, Music Reading Savant, Learn Guitar for Free, Wiki 2, saxophone lessons,NEC, CEC, Cerl, Violin from scratch, Danza Edinba, Tirine, UTH, Greenwich Symphony, Stepher's Happening, Earth Cupcake, My Music Theory, Short and Sweet Music, Charanga, DANSR, ONU, LOC, Wind Loft, Top Rated Trumpets, Trevor Jones, Quakertown Cyberacademy, Cleveland, Musixcool, Cooper MSO, Mathematic SE, Philarmonia, Scott Brothers Duo, Potomac Academy, Devieant Art, Pulse Music, Slash's Paradise, Daily Mail, Ableton, Fremeaux, Trumpet Guild, Tommy Igoe, George Manstan, Tablao Cordobés, Zastavki, MyBioMedArt, Independent, Voer, Británnica Kids, Guardian, Flickr, Ultimate Classic Rock, Houston Symphony, Britannica, Virtual Sheet Music, Music Clear Center, imgkid, Lotus Music, Music Workshop, Kennedy Violins, Seattle String Studio, Net Places, Piano Guide, Personal Singing Guide, Quadibloc, Basic Music Theory, EveryNote, Piano play it, Paintings, Featurepics, Wikipedia, Cyberfret, Guitar Master Class, Piano Lessons Central, Scientific Computing, Earlham College, Nucleus, Lotus Music, National Geographic, Afremoc, Music Literacy, Teoria, Global Guitar Network, Sangeeta Priya, Sam Winder, |