AMA Verlag Songbaukasten

In the book Songbaukasten Michael Schäfer teaches children, young people and adults the theoretical understanding of how musicians interpret and accompany songs and songs and develop their own compositions. The book Songbaukasten is divided into three major sections. All contents are illustrated and practiced with concrete song examples.

Content:

• preamble
• Original - The Overtone Series
• Melodic - melodies with pentatonic notes
• Harmonic - triads and their inversions
• chord sequences
• Medieval - The church keys
• Melodic - Melodies in the old church keys
• The major minor system - The simple cadence
• The simple cadence in minor
• Useful - The circle of fifths
• harmonise melodies
• The extended cadence
• The extended cadence in minor
• Harmonic closing remarks
• fallacy
• pedal point
• intermediate dominant
• The seventh as timbre
• The dominant seventh chord
• The dominant seventh chord with reduced ninth
• The Excessive Quintsex Chord
• The Neapolitan sixth chord
• Chords as timbre - variations and mediants
• Ascending and descending bass lines
• The modulation
• Metric - Time signatures and time changes
• The harmonic minor scale and its variations
• Melodic - Analyzing melodies
• Formal - Song forms
• Melodic - inventing melodies
• Formal - Foreplay, interlude, afterplay
• Stylish - Modern Styles
• skirt
• Literal - Writing lyrics
• Country/Western/Folk
• blues
• gospel
• funk
• Soul/Motown Style
• jazz
• Latin
• Historical - The continuo
• proposed solutions
• Alphabetical list of songs
• song list