Portal:Music

The Music Portal

Music is an art form, whose medium is sound and silence and depends on cultural context to be recognized as music. The common elements of music are pitch (which includes melody and harmony), rhythm (which is associated with concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics (loudness and softness), and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture (which are sometimes termed the "color" of a musical sound). (Music on Wikipedia)

Theory and composition

Western music

The goal of the 'Theory and composition' department is to equip the student with the tools and skills necessary to compose, arrange and analyze music. At the completion of this course of study, students will possess the skills and knowledge of western theory, creative writing, arranging, as well as having a portfolio of original works.

Introduction to music
Fundamentals of music
Music Theory I
Music Theory II
Chords
Harmony
Form and analysis
Composition : Beginning
Composition, Advanced
Lyrical composition
Counterpoint
Music Technology
Arranging
Orchestration
Film scoring (in conjunction with the Film editing course)
Final Theory Project
Music appreciation
Glossary of musical terms

Ear training

Ear training is learning/training your ears to recognize what you hear and put it down onto paper. These are basic learning guides, exercises and projects to help you understand in a meaningful way the flurry of sound in music.

Genres

Musicology

Generalities

Western music

Music instruments

String instruments

Woodwind instruments

Brass instruments

Percussion instruments

Concert percussion (Snare drum, crash cymbals, timpani, etc.)
Drum set
Mallet instruments (Marimba, xylophone, vibraphone, chimes, etc.)
Tabla (an Indian pair of drums)
Pipe and tabor

Keyboard instruments

Piano
Organ

Voice

Music resources

Wikibooks - Music

Hands on

Building a cigar box guitar
Blues basics
Rock basics
Wikiversity the movie : music
Jamming online
Experimental music
Practical lessons in film scoring (in conjunction with the film editing course)
Digital Audio Workstation

Textbooks

Open Source software

For all operating systems

Metronome
Music Instrument Tuner (a great tool that has nice features such as showing harmonics, wave form, etc.)
Guitar tuner
Vtones (cross platform midi editor)
Audacity (cross-platform sound editor ; a helpful tool for simple recordings and editing)
Ardour (digital audio workstation ; a great program for multi-track recording, mixing, mastering, etc.)
Musescore (cross-platform music notation software)
SuperCollider (programming language and framework mainly for sound synthesis and algorithmic composition)

For Linux

Calf Plugins (very nice plugins : compressor, multichorus, reverb,etc.)
GTick (very nice and useful metronome for Gnome desktop)
Linux MultiMedia Studio (LMMS)

External links

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