Join the Composer Contest in Jan/Feb 2020: “Beautiful Music”.
You can win prizes, level up your skills, and have fun making music!
What is “Beautiful Music”? Well that is up to you as a composer to choose with your creative freedom, however you can use these keywords as guidelines:
PS. You must active in the community to be able to win, meaning if you just "spam your track and then do not interact in the community, you will be disqualified.
Oooh, ooh, ooh! At the end of, “Gentle Wind of Hearts”, was that a Piccardy 3rd? I learned about that a couple of months ago. I heard it now and then, and it’s such a wonderful way to end some pieces.
Am I right in thinking Picardy third is where you go from minor to major tonic chord cadence - vaguely remember it from my music o level exam 30 years ago. Am I right in thinking it’s used on early renaissance music? I so need to brush on Theory.
It was used a lot Mikael.
Though the true use of the Picardy third was to take a major tonic and raise the minor third of the next chord (often in root position) so that it resolves to a major triad. Think is a French concept but you hear it in Vivaldi’s work, Saint seans work and Berlioz:)
So if you had a C Major triad, you may choose to play D Major as your next chord for instance as the F natural would be used as a passing note and moving to F# would resolve the cadence to the use of a 5/5 setting you up for a perfect cadence in G Major…while also giving chromatic interest between E and F#.
In the same way you can change from C Major to A Major which resolves as the C moves to C# and the G moves a tone to A. In this case the C would be in second position so that the A would be in root. In this case the E is sustained also, making a smoother transition.
Yes Jan/Feb so deadline is 1st of March, we used to have single month challenges, but this time it was kind of a late start due to the holidays so I figured all through February is better.
