Trevor de Clercq

The Practice of Popular Music

Understanding Harmony, Rhythm, Melody, and Form in Commercial Songwriting

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Produktbeschreibung

The Practice of Popular Music is a music theory and musicianship textbook devoted to explaining the organization of contemporary popular music styles such as pop, rock, R&B, rap, and country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 476
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 210mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 1172g
• ISBN-13: 9781032362892
• ISBN-10: 1032362898
• Artikelnr.: 69790326

Autorenporträt

Trevor de Clercq is a Professor in the Department of Recording Industry at Middle Tennessee State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Musical Domains
1.1 The Rhythm Domain
1.2 The Pitch Domain
1.3 Song Form
1.4 Other Domains
2. Major Frameworks
2.1 Major Scales
2.2 Small Intervals
2.3 Beat Divisions
2.4 Transitions in Form
2.5 Key Signatures
3. Essential Structures
3.1 Perfect Intervals
3.2 Syncopation
3.3 Triads
3.4 Harmonic Rhythm
3.5 Triads in a Key
4. Context Matters
4.1 Chord Progressions in Major Keys
4.2 Melodic Organization
4.3 Drum Feels in 4/4
4.4 Triple Divisions
5. Alternative Frameworks
5.1 Compound Meter
5.2 Shuffle and Swing
5.3 Relative Minor Keys
5.4 Chord Progressions in Minor Keys
6. Relevant Connections
6.1 Supertonic and Mediant
6.2 Triple Meters
6.3 Melodic Embellishments
7. Expanded Elements
7.1 Sixteenth Notes
7.2 Larger Intervals
7.3 Seventh Chords
8. Core Endings
8.1 Formal Suffixes
8.2 Swung Sixteenth Notes
8.3 Chord Inversion
9. New Perspectives
9.1 Parallel Minor Keys
9.2 Syncopated Sixteenth Notes
9.3 Phrase Organizations
10. Missing Pieces
10.1 Partial Bars and Hyperbars
10.2 Atonic Tonics
10.3 AABA form
11. Colorful Combinations
11.1 The Blues
11.2 Harmonic Mixture
11.3 Cross Rhythms
12. Additions and Deletions
12.1 Add and Sus Chords
12.2 Modes
12.3 Quintuple Meters
13. Level Explorations
13.1 Secondary Dominants
13.2 Half-time and Double-time Outside 4/4
13.3 Syncopated Sixteenth Notes in 6/8
14. Further Extensions
14.1 Harmonic-Bass Divorce
14.2 Extended Chords
14.3 Other Applied Chords
14.4 Septuple Meters
15. Some Substitutions
15.1 Inverted Secondary Dominants
15.2 Diminished Seventh Chords
15.3 Tritone Substitutions
16. Significant Shifts
16.1 Tonal Modulation Strategies
16.2 Metric Modulation