Anyone remember when I said I wanted to make a music theory thread 4 months ago? Just after I said that I was slammed with work, but now I have free time again! So I've been trying to figure out how to organize this in terms of its topics because it's a lot and here's what I have so far:
This is the order I was thinking of using:
- Basic Pitch/Rhythm + Music Notation (Key sig, time sig, counting + takadimi, hemiolas, scales, intervals, etc)
- Chord Types (Triads, Seventh Chords)
- Roman Numeral Analysis + Chord Inversions
- Lead Sheet Analysis
- Sequences + Harmonic Progression
- Cadences
- Modes
- Non-Chord Tones
- Secondary Dominants
- Neapolitan Chords (bII)
- Augmented 6th Chords (German, French, Italian)
- Modulation
- Enharmonic Chord Spellings and Modulation
- More Scales (Whole Tone, octatonic, major/minor pentatonic)
- Polyrhythm
- Twelve Tone Serialism
This is stuff that I definitely want to mention but idk where to put it:
- Sight singing
- How to transcribe chord progressions
- Part writing (4-part harmony, open vs closed intervals, keyboard vs chorale style (SATB))
- Music structure (motive, period (+types), sentence, sonata form, ternary, rondo, binary, etc)
I'll probably come up with more topics and revise this list as I go over my notes but that's what I have so far. There are some concepts like twelve tone serialism that I can't find examples of in vocal synth music. At the moment I'm thinking of pulling from non-vocal synth music for that one, but I'm open to suggestions. I've been drafting the first couple posts and they've gotten really long, so I'll probably split up the pitch and rhythm parts into different posts and use spoiler tags for each subtopic (or something along those lines). Anyways, I just wanted to give an update since I hadn't mentioned the thread in a while. If anyone happens to see that I'm forgetting important concepts feel free to let me know.
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