Harmony and the Rudiments of Music Theory

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Comment by Jochen Lehnert on February 17, 2009 at 1:47pm

Now I am here. There is still so much to learn.

Comment by Chris Alpiar on January 12, 2009 at 3:54pm

Marius I think microtonal is referring to scale systems with more than 12 notes in an octave. like 24 notes from C to C would be microtonal, or any of the asian scales with many semi-tones that dont even necessarily have pure octaves, but not chromatic 12 notes. Now if you are talking about using measures of less than a half step then it is microtonal if it is used as primary tonality and not an inflected bend (like a blues bend)

Comment by Peter Dewar-Finch on November 11, 2008 at 3:54pm

Hello Simon. I'm pleased to find a group such as this which deals with some of the fundamentals of composition.

Comment by MusicgalSD on October 26, 2008 at 9:49pm

Thanks for the invitation Simon!

Comment by Marius Amado-Alves on October 25, 2008 at 7:13pm

I use chromatic scales a lot. Sometime the scale does not fit the rythm and then I use a unit interval a little lower than a chroma to make it fit, e.g. 3/8 of a (diatonic) tone. But the overall song is quite tonal, and mostly diatonic. My question is: does this trick qualify the song as "microtonal" or some such as per the academics in your shelves? Thanks a lot.

Comment by ahmadjawadi on October 25, 2008 at 12:10pm

Thank you Simon for creating this lovely forum, I'm happy to join it an to be with you, if anybody has any question about the Oriental (middle Eastern) music (Quarter tones, Ornaments or whatever) please don't forget that I'm here and if I get any problem in the orchestration or the harmony I'll never hesitate to ask you,
Love,
Ahmad

Comment by Per-Erik Rosqvist on October 25, 2008 at 11:57am

Simon, thanks for the invitation, There are huge gaps in my knowledge of harmony ;) but i'm studying it right now... :)

Comment by Andy Schofield on October 25, 2008 at 11:44am

Hi Simon
Thanks for the invite. Anything I can do to help.....more than willing and happy to do so.....and will no doubt be asking my own questions too