3.1 Tones and Their Properties 3.1.1 “Anything You Can Do”
3.1.2 Pitch: “I Can Sing Anything Higher Than You”
3.1.3 Loudness: “I Can Sing Anything Softer Than
You”
3.1.4 Duration: “I Can Hold Any Note Longer Than
You”
3.1.5 Tone Color: “I Can Sing Anything Sweeter Than
You”
3.2 Overtones: The Harmonic Series
3.2.1 The Tone Path To Your Brain
3.2.2 A House Is Not a Home, and a Tone Is Not a Tone
3.2.3 So, What Exactly Are Harmonics/Overtones?
3.2.4 Not Just One Overtone—A Bunch of ‘Em
3.2.5 The Harmonic Series (Overtone Series)
3.2.6 Your Brain’s Automatic Tone-processing Skill
3.2.7 Bring Out Those Overtones!
3.2.8 Overtones Identify Musical Instruments and Voices
3.3 How Musical Instruments Work
(Including the Voice)
3.3.1 What’s A Musical Instrument, Anyway?
3.3.2 Setting Resonators in Motion, Directly and Indirectly
3.3.3 Categories of Musical Instruments
3.3.4 Idiophones: Percussion Instruments without a Membrane
3.3.5 Membranophones: Percussion Instruments with a
Membrane
3.3.6 Aerophones: Wind Instruments, Including the Voice
3.3.7 Chordophones: Stringed Instruments
3.3.8 Electrophones: Instruments That Produce Sound
Electronically
3.4 Tone Properties and Their
Emotional Effects
3.4.1 Emotional Valence and Intensity
3.4.2 Emotional Effects of Pitch
3.4.3 Emotional Effects of Loudness
3.4.4 Emotional Effects of Tone Color
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TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PART I
The Big
Picture
Introduction
1.
W-5 of Music
2.
Pop Music
Industry
PART II
Essential
Building
Blocks
of Music
3.
Tones/Overtones
4.
Scales/Intervals
5.
Keys/Modes
PART III
How to Create
Emotionally
Powerful Music
and Lyrics
6.
Chords/
Progressions
7.
Pulse/Meter/
Tempo/Rhythm
8.
Phrase/Form
9.
Melody
10.
Lyrics
11.
Repertoire/
Performance
PART IV
Making a
Living In
Music
12.
Business of
Music
Appendixes
Notes
References
Index
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