Archive for the 'Music Theory' Category

Song form and structure: A few basic things

Friday, February 20th, 2009

A very important topic when writing music is the form of your song or piece. There are many different styles and methods of working on this matter. We will discuss these in this article.
First of all, everything depends on the kind of music you want to write. Pop and rock music for example have pretty [...]

A few basic things about music theory: Pitch-class set theory and its uses

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Today, we’re going to discuss a few things about music theory. While most music theories revolve around scales and modes (which, of course, will cover at some point) I prefer another way of thinking.
Allen Forte was a musicologist that tried to analyze atonal music. He created a music theory revolving around pitch-class sets, which however, can [...]


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