Post by honeyboy on Sept 22, 2011 14:48:58 GMT
How Music Works, an interesting and easy to understand video introduction by composer Howard Goodall (Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Vicar of Dibley, QI, Catherine Tate Show)
Melody
"Every music system in the world shares these five notes in common. Indeed, they’re so fundamental to every note composed or performed anywhere on the planet that it seems, like our instinct for language, that they were pre-installed in us when we were born. These five notes are a human genetic inheritance, like the fingers on our hands".
Whole Lotta Pentatonica
Modes & Musical Storytelling
Watch this to understand the Tudor 'false relations' musical roots of Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson
Diatonic Fashion
The Celtic, African, Shaker melting pot
Melody
"Every music system in the world shares these five notes in common. Indeed, they’re so fundamental to every note composed or performed anywhere on the planet that it seems, like our instinct for language, that they were pre-installed in us when we were born. These five notes are a human genetic inheritance, like the fingers on our hands".
Whole Lotta Pentatonica
Modes & Musical Storytelling
Watch this to understand the Tudor 'false relations' musical roots of Blind Lemon Jefferson and Robert Johnson
Diatonic Fashion
The Celtic, African, Shaker melting pot
