On 8/14/06, Marius Schebella marius.schebella@chello.at wrote:
Chuckk Hubbard schrieb:
On 8/14/06, David Powers cyborgk@gmail.com wrote:
was Arnold Schoenberg's 'Theory of Harmony'.
I don´t think classical harmony is of any interest for pop music. except maybe voicings and thoughts on polyphony. What maybe is interesting with Schoenbergs theory is his work on formal structure in the book "Stil und Gedanke"/"style and idea" talking about motives, melodies, time, repetition, formal ideas. (naa, I would not recommend that really...)
I don't know, I loaned that book to my jazz pianist roommate freshman year and never got it back. He claimed to find a lot of useful stuff in it. I don't recall any tritone subs, but there was a lot of other wild stuff. Actually, if "classical" would include Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, or Schoenberg, then it was at least of interest to Gershwin (who begged some of these "classical" types to teach him). One thing I like about Schoenberg's book, as opposed to most theory handbooks, is that it offers a basic explanation of harmonics and the physics behind the major scale (before abandoning it). Such an explanation can be found easily online, but I like the idea that a music student might find value in it.
Maybe more effective would be to listen to artists you like to "copy" and analyse their chords and then have a "style" in your chord progressions system like "gershwin", "beatles", "bryan adams", "bjork" with some weighings of progressions, distributions of modes...
I was actually thinking it would be simpler just to make a patch that plays a 2-second clip of a random Beatles song when it receives a bang. Lots of variety, and I think John Lennon would strongly approve. -Chuckk