Scales: Order in the chaos?
The second law of thermodynamics says that the entropy of a closed system can only increase over time. What does this have to do with… Read More »Scales: Order in the chaos?
The second law of thermodynamics says that the entropy of a closed system can only increase over time. What does this have to do with… Read More »Scales: Order in the chaos?
I love the idea of dressing up and why not do this with a melody? There is so much that can be learned from listening… Read More »Cry me a river
Shortest post ever… Can’t get you out of my head. (does that trigger a song in your head?) How about this? Y M C A… Read More »Earworm.
Thinking about melody, there are a few components that are common to all music – pitch and rhythm. None of the topics in #MUS654 deal distinctly with rhythm, but it is interwoven into everything. Yesterday in my made-up melody example, I used different rhythms to give meaning to the notes. It made me think. There are some pieces of music where the notes are constant, and then what? It is not always the rhythm that points to the melodic line. The components of music can be shuffled so that one comes to the foreground while something else, that maybe more constant, fades more into the background.Read More »Making it melodic
Today I decided to take a leaf out of Duane Padilla’s book and follow the example he set for us in the video he made for #MUS654 Session 2 about the difference between a riff and a melody. Duane is an excellent violinist and teacher and he explained it simply, and said that a melody is the notes of a scale mixed up. In his video he made cards for the different notes of the scale… I have cards – playing cards! I used these to represent the eight notes of any scale instead of writing down specific notes. Taking out one of each of the numbers Ace through to 8 gave one card for each note of the scale, and then I decided to deal myself a tune.Read More »Deal me a tune
Speech, the melodic qualities therein, and a favourite nursery rhyme. Sounds like a #MUS654 task to me! This is my effort at listening to a… Read More »Twinkle twinkle little bat #MUS654
Today as part of #MUS654 I had a go at one of the tasks from Session 2 about ‘What makes a melody?’ that asks us to copy… Read More »The Birds… what are they saying?!
In Week 2 of #MUS654 we are thinking of all things melodic. There is birdsong, a spattering of cool riffs, and a discussion on the way… Read More »It’s all about melody: Week 2 #MUS654
I’ve been thinking about sounds and I came across this website that provides listeners with a graphic listening guide for music… and it is completely… Read More »Seeing more clearly
What was it? What’s the answer??? A couple of days ago I posted a listening challenge as part of #MUS654. The task was to create… Read More »The Answer!