Posts Tagged ‘motive’
This article is a continuation of an earlier one, because I think I can go through a few more examples on how to write a melody. But first, let’s review the fundamentals from that previous article: Keep in mind the flow, tone, and mood of the melody, along with the overall fit/structure. Sing the melody [...]
Categories: Composing
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Modulation involves changing from one key to a different one (in the same piece). There are many reasons to modulate, which I won’t really go into, and there are different ways to do so, which you can check out here, but what I want to discuss today is how to make modulation sound good. Let’s [...]
Categories: Composing
Tags: common chord, developmental, diabelli, exposition, how to compose, melody, modulation, motive, mozart, Music, pivot, recapitulation
