Combining Riemannian Harmony with Polychords and Arpeggio Melody
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2024
- In this short mood piece 'The Midnight Dance Begins' for synthesizers and orchestral instruments the starting point is a set of chord progressions, including a Riemannian hexatonic pair. Using a limited set of techniques we create extended harmony with pedal point, or polychords. From these chord structures we derive melody and arpeggio motifs. The musical elements are discussed in detail and you'll hear the full composition. There is companion material on Patreon (PDF, 25 pp., A4).
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Contents:
00:00 Opening titles
00:26 Section 1 Introduction: what this video is about
01:05 Section 2 Example composition overview, techniques
01:40 Section 3 Harmony and chord progressions
02:05 Section 3.1 Riemannian Transformations, hexatonic pair, progression in Bb, inversions
04:14 Section 3.2 Diatonic progression in Ebm
05:36 Section 3.3 Chromatic progression in Dm
06:23 Section 4 Extended harmony
06:37 Section 4.1 Seventh chords from hexatonic scale
07:28 Section 4.2 Pedal Point
09:03 Section 4.3 Polychords, incomplete
10:48 Section 5 Combined Techniques
11:03 Section 5.1 Melody, motif with imitation
14:15 Section 5.2 Strata harmony and arpeggio melody
16:04 Section 5.3 Arpeggio melody over polychords with strata shift
18:51 Section 6 Full composition
21:29 Summary and conclusion
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@Juanito Mayor welcome to my CZcams video channel. Hopefully you will enjoy and benefit from watching the collection of tutorials. Get inspired and experiment with the many techniques presented here. In case you have specific questions don't hesitate to ask. Thanks for the positive feedback.
wonderful composition and analysis! thank you for sharing and teaching us your process. I particularly enjoy the choices in arrangement. it gives me strong feelings of a score to a villainous scene
@brennanlable Thank you for the kind words about this video tutorial. Hopefully it inspires you to experiment with similar techniques in your own compositions.
I have been watching your videos from last month or two, can you please suggest where can a beginner start watching and applying this technique in their practice of arranging and composing chronologically, and thanks for making these videos!
@Ridham Prajapati In the tutorial you'll find a list of 'Watch Tips'. For a more structured approach there are the 3 paths: 1) The Schillinger System, 2) Neo-Riemannian Theory, 3) Combined techniques. Ad 1): 1a) Learn the Schillinger nomenclature from the 2 episodes from May 2017, 1b) an introduction to rhythm is in Schillinger Rhythm: Binary Synchronization Fundamentals (Apr 2022) 1c) There are many tutorials on harmony, but you may want to start with the series on dissonant and extended chords in the Diatonic System of Harmony (May 2017 - Nov 2018). Ad 2): There is the 4-part series on Riemannian Transformations (Feb - Jun 2020). Ad 3): The combination of techniques you may find in quite a number of tutorials on this channel, but in 2022 I started a dedicated series, that demonstrate the application process in detail, like the one you have been watching just now. Note that I also include many aspects from Pitch-Class Sets (atonal music), which is another branch from the modern composition techniques tree. At some point you may have to refer to the set of books I mention in the tutorials, or take lessons. Does this help?
Thanks for this breakdown, to clarify this very dense video. It's absolutely great. Do you plan to make more videos about the combined techniques ? I like how you introduced them with a sort of flow chart from the basic motivic idea up to the full form. Very tidy. Clear thinking.
@Julien Michel, Thank you for the positive feedback. Many tutorials are about a single technique; still in the somewhat more extended music examples at the end you'll find combinations with other approaches. However, in 2022 I have been creating short compositions with a limited set (2-3) techniques, preferably from remote angles, as a challenge, and later turning these into tutorials. At that stage I created the diagrams, flow charts and grand staff reductions so viewers might gain better insight in the method (madness) and get inspired to experiment with these same (or other) combinations. Glad you like this set of episodes, since quite some work goes into preparation of the multimedia content. There might be more of these, and suggestions for specific combined techniques are welcome.
Doctor Absil, could you please tell me some music names which are based on NR theory?
@Cloud Dai I am not sure whether you would like to have a list of composers that use harmony based on Neo-Riemannian Theory or instead a list of music titles. My best advice (apart from an extended google search) is to order the book by Frank Lehman, Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema, Oxford University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-19-060640-4. There you'll find numerous names, and score examples with in-depth discussion. (In my earlier videos on NRT you'll find other references as well.) Does this answer the question? Thanks for asking.