How Music Really Works : The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students ( Updated & Revised Second Edition )

Wayne Chase

ISBN 10: 1897311559 / ISBN 13: 9781897311554

Published by Roedy Black Publishing, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: How Music Really Works : The Essential Handbook for Songwriters, Performers, and Music Students ( Updated & Revised Second Edition )
• Publisher: Roedy Black Publishing
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897311559
• ISBN 13: 9781897311554
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition.
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

How Music REALLY Works, 2nd Edition, focuses on how to seize the attention of listeners and move them emotionally.
This book provides in depth, visually oriented, easy to understand text and graphics covering every important aspect of music making and lyric writing.

The book has 4 major divisions.

I: The Big Picture

II: Essential Building Blocks of Music

III: How to Create Emotionally Powerful Music and Lyrics

IV: Making a Living in Music

I: The Big Picture

1: why music is such an emotionally powerful way of communicating.

2: Major genres of Western music.

II: Essential Building Blocks of Music

3: Harmonic series, how the various types of musical instruments work (including the voice), and the emotional effects of pitch, loudness, and tone color.

4: Discusses the emotional effects of various types of intervals. Topics include scales used in the West

5: Covers the major and minor modes, and more

III: How to Create Emotionally Powerful Music and Lyrics

6: Introduces a simple visual method of working out beautiful, original chord progressions.

7: The role of memory in music, then discusses each element of rhythm (beat, pulse, meter, etc.), how they all relate to each other, and how to manipulate the various elements to maximize emotional impact.

8: Differences between vocal melodic phrases and structural phrases, and the central role of binary form.

9: Melody. The chapter presents 10 specific techniques a songwriter or composer can use to create emotionally powerful tunes.

10: Detailed blueprint for writing lyrics that communicate emotional meaning in the strongest, most effective ways possible.

11: Signature sound and style, stage fright and live sound mixing.

IV: Making a Living in Music

12: How the Music Business and Music Entrepreneurship REALLY Work.