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Harmony for Computer Musicians
Michael Hewitt
*Harmony for Computer Musicians* is Michael Hewitt's practical guide to harmony written specifically for people making music on a computer rather than reading from a conventional score. Building on his earlier *Music Theory for Computer Musicians*, Hewitt works through intervals, tonality and the key system, triads, tonic and dominant harmony, part-writing, modulation and modal interchange — the tools that give music depth, color and emotional pull. His signature move is to present most examples in the piano-roll format familiar from sequencing software, so producers can see and hear the concepts in the environment they actually work in. It's a clear, applied primer for bedroom producers and electronic musicians who want real harmonic craft without a classical-conservatory detour.
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The author
Michael Hewitt is a composer, author and lecturer based in North Wales, with a music degree from the University of London and a master's and doctorate from Bangor University. He is best known for a popular series of theory books aimed at computer and electronic musicians, of which this is one.
The book
The book translates traditional harmony into the working language of the modern producer, presenting material in the piano-roll grid of sequencing programs and moving step by step from intervals and triads up through modulation and modal interchange. A second edition expanded the coverage.
How to read it
It works best as a hands-on course to work through at the DAW, trying each idea in a project, rather than a book to read cover to cover. Reviewers value its accessibility for self-taught musicians; those with classical training may find parts elementary.
For more context
Pair it with Hewitt's Music Theory for Computer Musicians and Composition for Computer Musicians.
Sources
- Type
- Book
- Author / Maker
- Michael Hewitt
- Publisher
- Course Technology PTR
- Place of publication
- Boston
- Year
- 2010
- ISBN
- None
- Shelf
- Music
- Location
- Colorado