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The Craft of Composing is dedicated to demystifying the art of writing music and making it accessible to all. By providing musicians with methods that are easy to understand, coupled with a access to a community of other composers who are on the same journey, we hope that you will be able to unlock your creativity and write music on a whole new level.
An ostinato is a repetitive musical figure that serves as an accompaniment and also adds a driving rhythmic quality to the music. In many ways an ostinato is not too different from a melody. It still relies on chord tones for support. The main distinction is that an ostinato is shorter and more repetitive than …
The origins of our musical system began with Pythagoras around 500 BC. He created an instrument with a single string called a mono chord. He experimented by dividing it into segments and listening to the results. The first thing he noticed was that if you divide it into two segments you get a note which …
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Counterpoint Counterpoint is a style of writing that uses multiple independent melodic lines playing at the same time. It might seem that any music that has multiple parts is a type of counterpoint given this definition. However, the emphasis is on lines which are both independent and melodic, not just any lines. What makes a …