Melody in songwriting : tools and techniques for writing hit songs


Jack Perricone
Bok Engelsk 2000
Utgitt
Boston, MA : Berklee Press ; Distributed by Hal Leonard , c2000
Omfang
ix, 180 sider : musikkeksempler
Opplysninger
Introduction -- pt. 1. Melody : its components -- 1. Melody : some basics -- Melody : melodic phrase -- Conjunct/disjunct melodic motion -- Writing for the voice -- The lead sheet -- Guidelines for lead sheet writing -- Repeat signs -- 2. Pitch -- Harmonic series -- The major scale -- Stable and unstable tones -- Tone tendencies -- Tonally open and closed phrases -- Independent melody -- Unstable tones ending phrases -- "My old Kentucky home" -- "Yellow rose of Texas" -- 3. Rhythm -- Pulse, meter, and rhythm -- "Gregorian chant" -- Stress symbols -- Summative stress -- Additional considerations in stress -- Masculine/feminine endings -- Beyond simple prosody -- "Love is you" -- 4. Tone tendencies -- Immediate resolution, delayed resolution, and no resolution -- 5. Symmetry/asymmetry -- Compositional variables -- The number of phrases -- Balance vs. symmetry -- Phrase lengths -- Phrasal balance -- The rhythm of the phrase -- Matched, inexactly matched, and unmatched phrases -- Correspondence of matched phrases with rhyme -- Outer matching -- Matched rhythms -- Inner rhythmic matching -- Open and closed -- 6. Melody in minor -- Overtone series -- The minor scales -- Natural minor or Aeolian mode -- Harmonic minor -- Melodic minor -- 7. Melodic outline; melodic contour -- Melodic outline -- Melodic step progression -- Embellishing the melodic outline -- Analysis of structural tones and embellishing tones -- "Can't take my eyes off of you" -- Melodic contour : ascending, descending, arch, inverted arch and stationary -- "Because you loved me" -- 8. Controlling the speed of your song -- Phrasal acceleration/deceleration -- Use of phrasal acceleration/deceleration in songwriting -- Rhythmic acceleration/deceleration -- 9. Melodic placement -- Phrase endings -- Phrase beginnings -- Pickup notes -- Beginning on the weak part of the measure or metric grouping -- "Love is you" -- 10. Building sections -- The order of the phrases -- Building a symmetric section -- Building a balanced but not perfectly symmetric section -- Open or closed? -- Creating open sections -- Unbalancing a section -- Creating interesting balanced sections -- Fragmentation -- 11. Developmental techniques -- Motive -- Variety within unity -- Development technique #1 : retain the rhythmic structure, change the pitch, sequence -- Use of developmental technique #1 in the compositional process -- Developmental technique #2 : varying the phrase structure -- Extension and truncation -- Developmental techniques -- 12. Form -- Song forms -- The central statement -- Song sections : verse, refrain, chorus, bridge, transitional bridge, primary bridge -- Frequently encountered song forms -- The "standards" song form -- The introductory verse -- The chorus -- The concept of open and closed and its relationship to form -- Verse/refrain -- Verse/chorus -- Bridge sections.; pt. 2. Melody-harmony relationships -- 13. Functional harmony and harmonic progression -- Tonic function triads -- Subdominant function triads -- Dominant function triads -- Stability/instability in harmonic progression -- Functional harmonic progressions -- 14. A unified theory of melody and harmony -- Melodic progression -- INdependent and dependent melodies -- Why a unified theory? -- "Come rain or come shine" -- 15. Non-chord tones and tensions -- Non-chord tones -- Neighbor tone, changing tone, passing tone, unprepared approach tone, escape tone, anticipation, suspension -- "Killing me softly" -- Tensions -- Non-chord tones and tensions -- 16. Making harmonic choices -- Harmonic choices -- 17. Melody/bass relationships -- Motion of the bass to the melody : oblique motion, parallel motion, similar motion, contrary motion -- chord inversions -- Consonance/dissonance of intervals -- 18. Harmony in minor -- Traditional harmony in minor : natural minor, harmonic minor, and melodic minor -- The harmonic minor scale -- The melodic minor scale -- Melody/harmony relationships in minor -- Minor to major/major to minor -- Use in form -- Modal interchange -- 19. Additional melodic/harmonic considerations -- Harmonic rhythm -- Harmonic cadence -- Use in form -- Harmony's effect on the phrase -- The harmonic-metric phrase and the melodic-rhythmic phrase -- "The long and winding road" -- 20. Starting with a chord progressions -- Melodic integrity -- Front-heavy, back-heavy melodic phrases -- 21. Pedal point, sus chords, and chords without thirds -- Pedal point -- Sus chords and chords without thirds -- Chords without thirds -- 22. Blues/rock -- Major pentatonic -- Minor pentatonic -- Independence of melody and harmony -- Characteristic rock harmony -- Root motion -- "Addicted to love" -- Form in blues and early rock -- Emphasis at the beginning -- Emphasis at the subdominant -- Emphasis on the dominant or on the final cadence -- Adding a bridge to the blues -- Other blues-derived forms -- Stylistic considerations -- 23. Modes -- Aeolian mode or natural minor -- Chord progressions in the Aeolian mode -- Strong cadencing progressions -- Root motion -- Dorian mode -- Chord progressions in the Dorian mode -- Mixolydian mode -- Typical Mixolydian progressions -- Use of pedal point.
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063400638X

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