Saturday, May 14, 2011

A Look At Music Composition Software

By Stacadam Joamoz


Try to imagine writing an entire orchestra score in just a matter of minutes, and about the only way you could conceive of it being possible was if you had music composition software. Instead, you quickly push a few buttons to assign instruments to sections and pick a rhythm, add the notes and your done with the work.

After you're done, you starting thinking about one of the parts and wonder what would happen if you changed the key signature for just a short part of the performance. It's easy to reload the file and start pushing some buttons, and with a mouse click you hear the results. No rubber trees gave up their spirits for an erasure to make those changes.

Since that change went so nicely, you consider making a change in the timing, and move to that stave and begin making alterations. Those bars are no longer three-quarter time, they've been changed to five-eights and you are listening to them, now.

Creativity doesn't know a schedule, and it suddenly appears with an idea about changing a whole section to a different type of note. With the advent of computer programming it is possible to place a couple of marks and then change that long rift to staccato. In seconds you hear the results.

Violins and cellos are usually the core of the string section, and you want their magic to work on a different level. In a blink of the eye, you can change them to notes that are an octave higher. It easy to make them play counter-point while you are at it. Trombones could be a nice addition, here.

Some people have a bit trouble with four part harmony, but there is little reason to spend that much time when you can push a button and have it done automatically. Then you can change any or all of the notes to achieve the exact mix, and electronics made it possible through music composition software.




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