Voice Motion Melodic Movement Within Three-Part Harmony - Softcover

Johannes Haage

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1513468103 ISBN 13: 9781513468105

Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc., 2022

Synopsis

This book focuses on the intersection of melody and harmony. While valuable for all instrumental and choral composers and arrangers, it specifically explores ways to move melodic voices independently within three-part harmony on the guitar. All you need to benefit from this book is the ability to read standard notation on the guitar. Working through this book will improve fretboard knowledge and help you write better melody-chord arrangements. For the first time in print, VOICE MOTION presents a condensed, comprehensive list of all the possible ways for three voices to move in 2nds or 3rds within the context of common 7-note or heptatonic scales. With graphic illustrations that instantly reveal the nature of the motion (see front cover), the versatility of this list is unparalleled in modern music publishing. VOICE MOTION contains not only the essential list of all possible moves, in close and open (drop-2) voicing, but also: Begins with a complete course on diatonic three-voice chords and continues with a structured presentation of the ways to move voices within them. Introduces a unique harmonic toolbox which can be used at any stage of a musician’s personal artistic development. Provides an overview of heptatonic harmony and melodic movement which can be used when writing for or playing three voices in any harmonic situation. Vastly expands the reader’s chord vocabulary while demonstrating a clear method for learning to move any harmonic voice independently, in any inversion. Definitively explores all relevant heptatonic scales, their modes and three-part chord structures as well as presenting many examples, exercises and etudes to demonstrate their practical application. Presents a fretboard diagram and C major diatonic and chromatic scale exercises in notation and tab to clarify note locations on the guitar. Offers a special section applying the book’s principles to keyboard instruments. Includes access to online audio of select exercises and etudes plus three of the author’s original compositions demonstrating the techniques shown in this 316-page book.

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About the Author

Born and raised in Hamburg, Germany, Johannes Haage started playing music on violin from age 5, but switched to guitar about eight years later. As a high-school exchange student in Portland, Oregon he started playing jazz regularly and continued to do so back home. He started his college education at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, but soon transferred to Berlin to successfully finish his studies. Over the years his travels playing and studying music took him to places like the Center of the Arts in Banff, Canada, and New York City where he had the chance to play and deepen his studies with Bill Frisell, Brad Shepik, Ben Monder, Mark Turner, Dave Douglas, Drew Gress, Ralph Alessi, and many others. In Berlin he has been a very active member of the vital young jazz and improvised music scene since moving there in 2002, playing with many different musicians like Ben Kraef, Tobias Backhaus, Phil Donkin, Heinrich Koebberling, Philipp Gropper, Richard Koch, Oli Steidle, Simon Bauer, Brendan Dougherty, and many more. Besides the many loose collaborations and gigs as sideman he has been leading his own groups such as Johannes Haage's P.O.5, the Slowtrio, and the Johannes Haage Trio (with Andreas Lang on bass and Sebastian Merk on drums), which released an Album in 2010 featuring their original cover versions of songs that Marlene Dietrich was known for. Currently his main band is the Trio DRIFT with Drummer Joe Smith and Matthias Pichler on Bass - to date they have several LP albums out on shoebill music, an independent vinyl/digital record label directed by Haage. Parallel to playing, Johannes Haage remains a dedicated scholar and educator, teaching privately as well as at various universities, while pursuing a PhD in musicology/music theory at the HfMT Hamburg. VOICE MOTION is his first book. Visit him at johanneshaage.com for current info.

Edition details

• Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1513468103
• ISBN 13: 9781513468105
• Binding: Spiral-bound
• Number of pages: 316