Timeline for Does there exist a way of notating ones own harmonic language?
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| May 19, 2020 at 19:39 | answer | added | ttw | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 16:34 | vote | accept | Numpy | ||
| May 19, 2020 at 16:11 | answer | added | Athanasius | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 15:29 | comment | added | Numpy | @topoReinstateMonica Apologies, for me the term harmonic language takes precedence because my main interests lie in non-functional harmony, set-theory, why certain things work together, and how to define new harmonic concepts. While I think rhythm, etc. play an equally important part, I'd rather read answers with a bias towards thinking about harmony. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 14:58 | comment | added | user50691 | @topoReinstateMonica, that was not at all clear in the OP. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 14:55 | comment | added | Нет войне | Numpy - I am a bit confused though as to why you seem to equate 'signature sound' or musical 'soul' with harmonic language? For many artists, their 'signature' may be in their timbre or rhythm, rather in aspects of music that would (traditionally) be seen as 'harmony'... | |
| May 19, 2020 at 14:53 | comment | added | Нет войне | @ggcg There are plenty of areas of life in which we come up with terminology to represent specific concepts. Often such technical jargon is a bit opaque to those who are not familiar with it, but that doesn't mean it solely hinders communication - it makes up for its lack of 'common currency' by allowing more precise communication about a certain domain. I think OP is asking whether there's any terminology that could be used for the specific technical task of capturing an artist's "style". | |
| May 19, 2020 at 13:49 | history | edited | Numpy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 19, 2020 at 13:32 | comment | added | piiperi Reinstate Monica | Do you mean something like a "design language" for music, like the Snow White design language en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_design_language So, how was the design language written down? I guess it must have been some kind of a set of books containing descriptions of how to do different kinds of things. So, "how to do harmony the way I like it" book. What would you write in it? I think it would be just any sort of text, descriptions, maybe notation. Something you could give to other musicians in order to make "your" music. "Never play a maj7 chord in a bar full of rednecks" etc. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 13:26 | answer | added | user50691 | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 13:07 | comment | added | user50691 | Current descriptions of music do not stifle creativity any more than words stifle creativity. Would you propose asking a question here by jumbling up letter, words, and symbols in a way that is completely random to the rest of us but look pretty to you? Music, like any other language or artistic medium, is about communicating with others. What's wrong with learning things like pp, mp, ff, crescendo (which is just Italian for get louder), etc. And then using them? If your "language" is for you then it doesn't matter if it uses existing notation or not. | |
| May 19, 2020 at 13:01 | answer | added | Michael Curtis | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 7:03 | answer | added | meganoob | timeline score: 1 | |
| May 19, 2020 at 6:42 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | what is a harmonic language? | |
| May 19, 2020 at 5:05 | history | asked | Numpy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |