How To Compose Music ebook

This book teaches you how to compose music by Baynton Power.

Contents of the book:

*The piano keyboard - arrangement of the keyboard relationship
*The Stave
*Time
*Rhythm: primitive rhythm, the birth of melody, beats, time signatures, rests, etc.
*Melody - explanation of melody, intervals, importance of note values, two more time signatures, the bass clef.
*Keys - tones and semitones, the sharp key signatures, choice of key notes.
*Melodic Shape - importance of a good melody, melody graphs
Flat keys
*Harmony - explanation of harmony, effects of different intervals.
More about Scales and intervals
*Triads: Accompaniments to melodies - formation of triads, use in accompaniments, signs indicating loudness and softness, a tango.
*Combining melody and accompaniment - analysis of the tango.
*Composition of music - music in the home, rounds, aims of the composer, technique.
*Secondary Triads - value and use of these traids
*The diminished triad on the leading note - use of the triad, the diminished 5th of the triad, degrees of the scale.
*Syncopation
*Sequences
*An experiment in harmonizing - an analysis, passing notes
*Writing for guitar and banjo
*An analysis of a Chopin "Nocturne"
*Supplementary diversions - additional keys, scales in minor modes, triad formation on degrees of the minor mode, chromatic scale notation, additional time-signatures, further rounds for home amusement.
*Form in music - binary and ternary form, gavotte, minuet, intermezzo, etc., first movement sonata form, rondo - conclusion.
Italian musical terms in general use.