What to do with a Melody? - Music Composition
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- Wondering what to do with a melody you've written? How could you go about turning it into a piece? In this music composition lesson we start with a melody in a minor key, then work out how best to harmonise it, considering various different ways of presenting the texture, in a more homophonic or more contrapuntal way, and how to go about turning it into a piece in multiple styles. If you would like to know how to harmonise a melody in a minor key, then how to work the results into an interesting texture then this music composition lesson is for you. Having worked out the most successful harmony, does it work best in block chords, or in broken chords, or in imitation? So many possibilities and this music composition lesson opens up a good range of options.
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0:00 - Introduction to what to do with a melody?
0:19 - Listening to the written melody
1:22 - Baroque style treatment
9:28 - Classical style treatment
10:29 - Romantic style treatment
11:32 - Modern styles treatment
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What is missing from a lot of modern music...? MUSIC! Composition, melody, counter point, harmony, theme and motif! This was an excellent quick lesson. Very glad to have come across this video. Inspiring and delightful!
Thank you!
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Delighted to find you on youtube! At first i was thought "oh no a music teacher" then i was like "ok fine this is good he's cool" True story
That’s kind. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
Why would you go ' oh no music teacher'?
I'm so glad I recently discovered your channel, thanks so much for all the insight!
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I'm practicing my fundamentals, so this was out of my pay grade.
But, wait a minute! It's a Music Matters video, so it's so well explained that even though I'm not at this level, I can learn something just to keep in the back of my mind....and eventually at the tips of my fingers.
Merci beaucoup, Gareth.
That’s great
Wow! I didn't realize from your dedicated teaching videos you're such a talented composer. Very helpful...
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This is fantastic! You could say the harmonization styles were in this order: Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Schoenberg, Ives.
You could indeed! Thanks for your comment.
AWESOME!! LOVED your arrangements in all styles!
Thank you
Thank you soooo much for these tutorials!!!! Very, very helpful.
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Amazing insights into composition , harmonies and timings. Thanks.
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Congratulations. This video is incredible.
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11.06 that sudden dynamic fall just killed me! this video is maybe just a demonstration but also a masterpiece under your hands! ;) cool!
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Man i dont know what to say except that you are genius!
That’s most kind.
Thanks so much, sir!! Greetings from Panama🇵🇦
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Fantastic ! Thank you
A pleasure. Hope you’re well.
Thank you kindly.
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Lovely work !!
Most kind.
Thank you..great stuff
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Conseguiu de novo: instrutivo e agradável ao mesmo tempo.
Many thanks
Awesome video!! Learned alot from it! Thanks from Brasil!
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woa. really cool. makes me want to learn this stuff!!!
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Thank you so much for this! You make this topic so clear to me, someone rather insufficiently trained in music. I'm a poet/playwright currently trying my had at writing a musical theater piece. I want to include a musical number in which two characters are singing different melodies in counterpoint. This tutorial really helped me understand how to create the contrapuntal meter in my lyrics so I eventually can explain what I need to a musical composer-if I can find one! In an earlier comment, Neil Walsh said: "We need composers. That's the modern dilemma". I wholeheartedly agree. The 2017 film "Score: A Film Music Documentary" opened my eyes to that world.
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Very well explained.
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I always thought classical composers like Bach had tricks up their sleeves that they took to the grave even though they trained many people (Kirnberg, CPE etc), but here we are with some of those ideas. Folks, please support the online lessons from music matters! Beyond gold!
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Sensacional!!!
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nice harmony and melody with b(flat) chords>thank you
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This is really helpful , thank you!
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u are amazing..thanks
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Perfect timing Gareth - I'm in the process of writing a choral piece in Fm. Lots of ideas now - thanks!
That’s great.
Fantastic lession again!
Thank you for your kind comment.
You are opening my mind up to things that I have been searching for. Thank you.
You broke my heart @9:35
@10:45 you literally made me cry with your composition. This is what I am missing. I must know more.
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He's only used....natural minor...Harmonic minor...then the Melodic min..
i'll explain it C MAJOR/A minor ( KEYS are just PITCH)
There's 9-ea diatonic ( 7 notes) scales. With 7 modes each.
Which will give 63-ea MODES ( 7 note intervals variations within the 12 note)
I personally see modes the same thing as CHORDS.
You just have to get used to playing the 9 different scales together.
MODULATE/substitute or Insert...modes/chords in and out.
The scales actaully makes more sense..when you start stacking chords
over melodies...( it'll give you UNLIMITED OPTIONS)...
These are just the DIATONIC ( 7 note scales)
A Minor PUSHING UP towards it's parallel A MAJOR
NATURAL min
Harmonic min ( maj7)
Melodic min ( maj6, maj7)
Harmonic min #4 ( #4 Maj7)
Melodic min #4 ( #4, maj6, Maj7)
Harmonic min b5
Melodic min b5
Harmonic min b2
Melodic min b2
Th trick is also to know learning it ...PUSHING DOWN
C MAJOR towards C minor....
The modes and chords will INTERSECT in different WAYS...
hence making it EASIER to modulate
NOTICE b2, b3, b5, b6 b7 are the ( 5 BLACK KEYS)
That;s why it's EASIER for you learn it in C MAJOR/A min
ONE KEY at first....
From C MAJOR.....shift to a BLACK KEY....ONE at a time.
b6 = Harmonic MAJOR
b3= melodic min
b3, b6 = Harmonic min
b3, b6, b7 = Natural minor
b2, b3
b2, b3, b6
b3,b5
b3,b5, b6
b3, #4
b3, #4, b6
From F minor....
Example....I could had played F dim ( somewhere in the progress or song)
Notice the #4 or b5....in the scales I listed,
I can play C7......E dim or aug into F any time I want
or this....the VI chord of F Melodic min = D dim
I might had stack the Ab below the D dim...
I also would had apply the (N6) the Harmonic min b2 or Melodic min b2
You can make the b2 ( Gb as Maj7, dominant, aug, dimished)
The Melodic min #4 is AKA Lydian b3 or the IV mode of Harmonic MAJOR
I can also easy modulate from F minor to A Harmonic min or C Harmonic MAJOR to.....C MAJOR/Amin
F lydian #2 F lydian b3...
hmmmm...E phrygian b4 ( i'd play the E as dominant or min too.lol)
The II, IV, vi, VII ( 2 ,4, b6, 7) are ALL POSSIBLE FULL DIMINSIHED
it'll overlap in C Harmonic MAJOR and C Harmonic min
AND A harmonic MAJOR and A Harmonic min
D, F.Ab.B or B, D, F, G#
AUGMETNED chords are also SYMMETRICAL....
as in C, E, Ab......or G#, C, E...
hmmmmm...notice the F harmonic or melodic min = Ab AUGMENTED too.lol
idk what eles to tell you....if you learn the 9 parallel scales
..everything is all OPTIONAL
Excellent and very helpful tutorial. I loved the variation beginning at 10:35. I've noticed in all you videos how you make such good use of dynamics. I'm not sure if you've done a tutorial on dynamics but if not can I request one? Many thanks.
That’s most kind. That’s a topic we could look at. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk including details of our 25 online courses and of our Maestros programme.
Thank you for the lesson ! I can at least get the gist of arranging a song
See www.mmcourses.co.uk for many more song writing/ arranging resources.
Awesome!!! I love this sort of exercises because i feel in a real class. More of these please.
Also, do you think you could do a Music analysis about Mozart or Haydn???
That’s great. We will be doing Mozart analysis in a webinar very shortly. There’s some Beethoven and Bach analysis on our website www.mmcourses.co.uk
Music Matters That sounds great! I will definitely check those out. Thanks! :D
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Excellent tutorial sir, explain about military band marche composing sir
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Very cool. I do see a lot of points of current knowledge of theory overlapping with this, however, do you also have a more beginner video on the same concepts?
If you go to www.mmcourses.co.uk you will find our online Theory courses.
When you started changing styles😍😍😍 I love this sooooo... Much.
I need to learn how to do this but with jazz.
Which of your music matters courses can teach someone to do what you did here?
The trick is to develop a good grasp is harmony which you would find in our keyboard harmony course (more practical) or our Advanced Theory course (more theoretical). From there you can examine the aspects of style and apply the harmonic knowledge to it. Hope that makes sense.
Nice
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this here and now is forever ecstatic...lovely narrative and most natural of elaborating through reason...i just want to know when does the break not come, in this im guilty i know.
Thanks for your kind comment. Keep going. You’ll get there. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for much more.
thankyou i do like the baroque aproach .i think dotted notes and rhythm seem common in baroque ,
I’m glad you like the Baroque style. Dotted rhythms are certainly a feature.
Thank you for your video full of ideas. I was wondering if you could share the score you used for the "romantic" version of the accompaniment? I really like that sound but the video is too fast and I could not catch it.
Also I like very much your explanation of how to write the "Baroque" style step by step. Can you post more video on this as well? This is more interesting than the dry species counterpoint I am now learning.
Unfortunately I don’t have a score for it and much of what I do on the videos is improvised. Thanks for your encouragement. Sure. We can make more material on that. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for much more
I loved that version. You should go with it and turn it into an actual piece. In fact I think many people are curious about hearing your own compositions.
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So sad I found this two years later...Wonderful stuff - I teach theory in North Carolina...What software do you use for piano animation? love the colors
That’s most kind. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk
It's a program called Synthesia hooked up to a MIDI keyboard.
I want a video on fugal writing!
It’s on the list. Meanwhile there is a video on how Bach’s f# minor Fugue works at www.mmcourses.co.uk
Youve added richer chords and interesting bass lines at some point. Do you teach how to create richer chords? And how to re harmonise? Thank you for this video
Hi. That’s a pleasure. Yes, I teach chords/ re-harmonisation. If you go to www.mmcourses.co.uk and click on private tuition it’s all explained there.
@@MusicMattersGB ok thankyou for telling me.
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Hello, I had a quick question regarding the chords. How do you identify which chord does a bar belong in as you showed in the video? If playing each chord and trying to find the one that fits to the notes in a bar, do the passing notes have to be considered as well?
Hi, you may want to take a look through some of our other harmony videos to get a better understanding of this and in particular, some of the videos below...
Dealing with Non-Harmonic Tones: th-cam.com/video/EKSjlsFH9ZQ/w-d-xo.html
Naming Chords: th-cam.com/video/XcQRegmKDAY/w-d-xo.html
Harmony Videos: th-cam.com/play/PL5j5H06QkhxEQ3H0yacP_A3pjUviYCTl9.html
At about 5:20, you talk about "1, 5C, 1B" and" 2-5, 2B". Could you please explain that terminology?
A is a chord in root position ie the bottom note of the triad is the lowest note of the chord. So Ia in C major is CEG with C in the bass. B means first inversion ie the 3rd of the chord is in the bass. So Ib in C major is CEG with E in the bass. C is second inversion ie 5th in the bass. So Ic in C major is CEG with G in the bass.
Thanks very much... I have no idea why I've been around this long and never heard inversions referred to that way... it seems obvious after having heard your description. Thanks
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Music Matters Great explanation. I too needed that explained
Gareth, sorry this is off topic. You have lots of excellent videos on modulation, but would appreciate one on “modulating” from one time signature to another. 🤞
Okay we could add that to the list.
@@MusicMattersGB Great, thank you very much.
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I JUST found a classical paperback on Counterpoint for $4.99 in a library... 👀😍😱 Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Crazy how much of this theory is lost in our modern culture 😨
Certainly true. See www.mmcourses.co.uk for much more.
@@MusicMattersGB Beautiful - grazie
Thanks.
How did you find the chord to each bar?
Basically it’s a question of working out which chords belong to the key then selecting the chords that coincide with the notes in the melody. You might want to watch our videos on chords.
great tutorial. random side note = when i close my eyes you sound just like piers morgan XD
Thanks. Piers Morgan? Well there’s a thought!
I uploaded the melody here in case anyone wants to suggest bass lines or fill in Gareth's suggestions. musescore.com/user/23131141/scores/6175607
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We need composers. That's the modern dilemma
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I disagree, I think we need to explore the music of today, and bring everyone up to a similar page, make sure we at least all understand it. I mean it's fine having favourites but can we acknowledge that there are some artist out there today that are very talented, intelligent and gifted composers? Because I think there are. Let's not get disrespectful, get creative man.
Let’s explore the music of all time and of all cultures. That will give us the most exciting way forwards.
What's the purpose?
Hi. This is in response to questions from people about what to do with basic melodic ideas and the idea here is simply to demonstrate some of the many possibilities.
Why do you "style" a melody in such way?
It's trying to show different examples of how you might take a melody and turn it into a piece.
I thought I knew about music theory, and I do not
If you want to secure your theory knowledge have a look at our step by step course at www.mmcourses.co.uk/p/music-theory-grades-1-to-8