Whiteboards February 2015 – Oscar van Dillen

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in February 2015.

All these images and whiteboards deal with art and music, more especially with composition and music theory, so they have some companion pages here that treat at least a part of this in more depth:

Outline of basic music theory – a concise professional learning book
Music theory – an alphabetical reference guide

: on notation of rhythm

: on notation of rhythm

: blobs to indicate chords in harmonic analysis

: on harmonic analysis: the dominant function V will always be audiated, from there we conclude the tonic I and the preceding subdominants, forms of II, IV, or VI

: world music composition: on time – the case of tala

: how to count and anlayze larger triplets

: how to sing the harmonic building blocks (further exercises)

: elements in composition

: elements in composition

: the dominating dominant, the center in the temporal awareness of functional harmony

: solfeges with seventh chords

: analysis techniques

: analysis techniques

: recognizing a key is done by first hearing and identifying the dominant

: on scales en segments of scales: trichords, tetrachords, pentachords and hexachords; the major and minor pentatonic scales

: on scales: basic major and minor scales; the basic diatonic modes (aka church modes)

: connection between melody and functional harmony

: analysis of bach, well tempered clavier book 1 prelude nr 1 in c major

: on the rhythmic building blocks – singing proper durations

: basic diatonic scales (aka church modes)

: world music composition: on tala

: solfege: singing seventh chords and their chromatically neighboring seventh chords

: Computer room for music theory at Codarts

: same durations, but truly completely different rhythm, if interpreted in different time signatures: rhythm is *not* merely a sequence of different durations therefore