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Rhythm and meter are an important aspect of music. You could have a good sequence of notes that would make for a nice-sounding melody, but without the appropriate duration of note values the melody wouldn’t go anywhere. Speaking of which, the rhythm in “Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring” by Bach consists of many triplets. Triplets [...]
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We tackled melody last time, so so today we’ll go over accompaniment. The accompaniment plays an important role in establishing the harmony as well as driving the melody forward, while also setting the tone/mood. Let’s take a chord progression and make up a simple melody to go along with it (most of these cases are [...]
Categories: Composing
