Home music producers now have access to a wide variety of software synthesizers,
samplers, and FX devices on their computers.devices that had previously been available
only in expensive hardware forms. Although computer musicians often show a high degree
of skill and expertise with the technology they use to produce their music, many
mistakenly assume that this is all they need to produce quality tracks. Yet there is
often a vital ingredient missing: a useful knowledge of the way the language of music
actually works.an understanding of the ingredients of music and how they are put
together; what scales, chords, modes, and keys are; and the principles of arrangement,
melody, and harmony. In other words, computer musicians may have learned how to use
their instruments, but this does not necessarily mean that they know how to create
professional-sounding music using those instruments. This book was written to help
computer musicians grow in their knowledge of musical harmony, knowledge that is
essential for the skilled creation of complex musical works.

Topics include:

* intervals,
* tonality and the key system,
* part writing,
* triads,
* tonic and dominant harmony,
* modulation, and
* modal interchange and harmony.

Techniques are taught using the tools computer musicians are most familiar with.
Rather than using a conventional score format, most of the materials are presented
in the familiar piano roll format of computer music sequencing programs.

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