COMPOSER'S TOOLS
An Interactive Idea List
This area is under continuous development. Colored words indicate
links to specific Tool Pages. Links will be added when each tool
page is finished. Please send a suggestion if you want to see a particular
tool page completed right away.
Click on any link (colored word) to go to a Tool Page.
- Scale Materials
- Diatonic Modes
- Gapped Scales
- Hybrids
- Symmetrical Scales
- Tonality
- Polytonality
- Polymodality
- Chords
- Standard Progressions
- Extended Tertian Chords
- Modern Common Practice: Jazz Notation
- Chords and Scales
- Non Tertian Chords
- Quartal (Quintal) Chords
- Clusters
- Rhythm
- Asymmetrical Meter
- Polyrhythm/polymeter
- Ametrical (non meter)
- Syncopation
- Modern Common Practice: Jazz
- Melody
- Texture
- Form (updated Feb. 25, 1996)
- Twelve-Tone Technique
- Pitch Sets
- Twelve-Tone Composition
- Other Techniques
- Sound Scapes
- Multimedia (collaboration with other art media)
- Minimalism
- Electronic Techniques
- Sequencing
- Digital Recording
- Composing for Video and Animation
- Composing for Electronic Multimedia
- Computer Composition
- Music-As-System
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