Books on music theory, tutorial books on reading music, musical history, biographical material etc.
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Musical literature thread
Grayson Allen
Hudson Miller
That book is so bad.
The oral history of punk is amazing by legs something-forget the name right now.
Simon reynolds is normally pretty decent, especially the one about ecstasy club kids. His book about glam left something to be desired.
Alex ross isnt very good.
Robert Wilson
>Simon Reynolds
cringe
Elijah Smith
>posts a david bryne book
>calls simon reynolds cringe
Kevin Lopez
any books about the connections between notes/chords/progressions and raw emotions, and general jizz of that tyep ? My interest.
Colton Stewart
cringe
Hunter Morales
>arguing like this
cringe
Nicholas Watson
crinfe
Brayden Morris
crinfo
William Williams
Jordan Jenkins
Actually cringe
Michael Anderson
cronge
Josiah Lopez
So to actually be on topic, I don't have any recs that I've actually read but I have a book called "How to Make a Noise" on my backlog, it's about synthesizers and it seems good.
David Adams
crange
Elijah Cruz
Shostakovich’s Testimony is great
So is Ian MacDonald’s The New Shostakovich
Best composer of the 20th century hands down.
Cameron Robinson
crode
John King
Stockhausen on Music: Lectures - Karlheinz Stockhausen
Essays - Bela Bartok
Moondog - Robert M. Scotto
Christian Jenkins
It is all about context, there are no 'sad keys' or the like in western harmony and the 12 tone equal temperament scale, how you use them and the context you place them in determines the emotional impact. There is no easy path here unless you like cliche, best to just learn theory proper. I like Schoenberg's Theory of Harmony, it gives a very strong foundation and explains things better than most.
Charles Hall
No. Fuck you. D sharp minor is the saddest key.
Julian Price
I know key emotions looks like musical astrology, but it really is true
fuck you, the saddest key is either Bb minor or E minor
Bentley Kelly
Very underrated book that everyone needs to read and apply.
Ian Murphy
Any books on learning to read music and just music theory for beginners in general?
Michael Hill
Natural, harmonic, or melodic minor?
Minor scales still have Major chords in them and can masquerade as major and the natural minor being the 6th mode of a major scale makes things even more blurry at times.
Say what you want, but if you think certain keys, chords, or progressions are going to give you the emotion you want, you will be a sorry excuse for a composer