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In Associations of Harmony, you’ll learn the most common harmonic progressions in some of the greatest themes to emerge from Hollywood film music, and the emotional and musical associations they tend to have. In Rhythm and Meter, discover rhythmic techniques from some of the best-known themes in film, learn a wealth of techniques for irregular meters from classic blockbuster films, and see how meter combines with mode and tempo to create emotional associations from Hollywood’s best composers!
Associations of Harmony – Breakdown
Lesson 1 – Diatonic Progressions
- Preliminaries
- Our Use of Chord Symbols
- Theme Harmony – General Principles
- Associations and Their Progressions in Major Keys
- Innocence – Reverence – Americana
- Noble – Heroic Quest – Majestic
- Personal Loss – Intense Sadness
- Emotionally Touching
- Emotionally Painful
- Of Great Importance
- End of a Phrase
- Associations and Their Progressions in Minor Keys
- Heroic – Beginning of a Phrase
- Beginning of a Phrase
- From a Past Time – Pirates
- End of a Phrase
Lesson 2 – Chromatic Progressions
- Associations and Their Progressions with a Major Tonic
- Awe-Inspiring & Fantasy-Based
- Heroic
- Outer Space
- Love, Romance
- Rural America – Cowboys – Action Heroes
- American-ness (Culture, People, Places, etc.)
- The Extraordinary, Wonder, Amazement, Otherworldly
- The Thrill of Discovery
- Associations and Their Progressions with a Minor Tonic
- Suspense, Mystery, Dark Humor
- Great Dangers – Mysterious Objects
- Evil, Villain, Antagonism
- Hope in Adversity
Lesson 3 – Advanced Techniques
- Associations of a Tonic-Chord Melody Over a Non-Tonic Chord
- Bittersweet Emotion
- Jubilant, Overjoyed
- Associations of Tonal Chords with Other Scales
- Octatonic Scales: Tension, Danger – Comedy
- Hexatonic Scales: Strange, Mysterious – Comedy
- Associations of Ambiguous Tonics
- Incomprehensible, Incredulous
- Ambiguity
- Surprise Chords for Distinctive Theme-Writing
- I–bIII
- bV–V
- bVI–biii
Rhythm and Meter – Breakdown
Lesson 1 – Special Uses of Repetition, Hemiola, and Theme Rhythms
- Memorable Rhythms in the First 2 Bars of Themes
- Cell Repetition with Divider
- Cell Repetition with Variation
- Embedded Cell Repetition
- Creating Meaning with Hemiola
- Overview – Hemiola vs. Syncopation
- Confident
- Emphatic Cadence
- Light-Hearted Action
- Antagonist
- Overview – Intensifying Expressions with Displaced Hemiola
- Modern Theme Rhythms: The “Bump” and “Run-Up”
- The Strong-Weak Bump
- Bump with Decorated Strong Beat
- The Strong-Beat Run-Up
Lesson 2 – Irregular Meters in Action Cues
- Irregular Meters Used Singly
- 2-Beat Times (in 5)
- 3-Beat Times (in 7, 8)
- 4 or More Beats in Irregular Patterns
- Regular + Irregular: The Early Beat
- Regular + Irregular: The Late Beat
- Large Irregular Meters
- Other Techniques with Irregular Meters
- Mixed Irregular Meters
- Accelerating the Meter
- Making Repetitions Unpredictable
Lesson 3 – Associations of Meters with Certain Modes and Tempos
- A Few Preliminaries
- On Associations in General
- Expressing Compound and Triple Time
- Slow Compound Time
- Sorrow
- Mystery
- Fast Compound Time
- Strength, Power
- Success, Succeeding
- Light-Hearted Adventure
- Sinister
- Triple Time
- Comfort, Love, Bonding
- Tragic Fate
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