Generated by All in One SEO Pro v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # The Craft of Contemporary Commercial Music 2nd Edition by Greg McCandless and Daniel McIntyre ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Chapter 1](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-1/) - Introduction to Pitch This chapter introduces you to the fundamentals of pitch notation and relates the material to the keyboard as well as piano roll notation. Topics include pitch notation in treble and bass clef, an introduction to the keyboard, accidentals, enharmonic equivalents, whole steps and half steps, and semitones Open in New Window Audio - [Chapter 19](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-19/) - The Business of Music Composition This final chapter provides basic music business principles for media composers, as well as discussions on how to maintain and foster personal relationships with clients by casting light on the role of the composer within this complex area of the music industry. After an overview of interpersonal relationships and business - [Chapter 18](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-18/) - Scoring for Longer-Form Media This chapter moves the discussion of music for media to longer-form pieces, such as production tracks, trailer tracks, video game scores, and film scores. Primary topics include techniques for dramatic writing and thematic development in film and television scores, as well as horizontal and vertical approaches to game composition. Students also - [Chapter 17](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-17/) - Scoring for Short-Form Media This integrated music and technology chapter, the first in a two-chapter study of media scoring, begins by introducing production workflows related to using locked picture in the DAW. Related topics include video synchronization basics, importing/exporting video files into the digital audio workstation, and industry-standard visual cues used for synchronization such as - [Chapter 16](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-16/) - Final Mix Considerations This final chapter in Part IIb provides the essentials of digital mastering in the context of the project studio, preparing you to troubleshoot, export, and deliver your mixes to clients in a professional manner. Primary topics include psychoacoustic processing, automation, mix stems, noise reduction, and the use of a master chain within - [Chapter 14](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-14/) - Recording and Editing Live Instruments In this chapter, you will explore the world of live recording with a focus on instrument-specific stereo miking techniques. Recording session setup tips are provided as well, which involve concepts such as headphone mixes, low latency features, and sound barriers. Near the end of the chapter, you will be introduced - [Chapter 15](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-15/) - Mixing and Processing Building on the foundation presented in the two previous chapters, this section focuses on creating balance, width, and depth within a professional-quality mix. After a thorough treatment of studio setup, including discussions of acoustic treatment, monitor selection, and speaker placement, the chapter moves to an overview of effects processing. Topics in this - [Chapter 13](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-13/) - Introduction to Mixing Chapter 13 begins a discussion of mixing from the standpoint of a digital media composer. After an introduction to microphone types and related cabling, the focus turns to signal flow in both studio console and computer software scenarios. Throughout the chapter, you will explore concepts such as polar patterns, channel strips, in-line - [Chapter 12](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-12/) - Basic Orchestration This chapter begins with an overview of common orchestral instruments and discusses idiomatic techniques and articulations for members of each instrument family before proceeding to an in-depth treatment of orchestration in both traditional and modern contexts. Topics include instrument transpositions, standard doubling/layering schemes, and MIDI orchestration techniques. open in a new window Audio - [Chapter 11](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-11/) - Form and Development Beginning with a brief review of melodic concepts from Chapter 4, this chapter turns to a more thorough treatment of motivic development procedures, such as retrograde, inversion, augmentation, diminution, and fragmentation, and their use in the creation of phrases, period structures, and leitmotifs. You will also be introduced to a variety of - [Chapter 10](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-10/) - Expanding your Harmonic Vocabulary This chapter surveys chromatic harmonic practices from the common-practice period through the present, helping you to augment your compositional palette and create contemporary progressions. Common-practice chromatic harmony techniques that are addressed in this chapter include secondary dominants and leading tone chords, Neapolitan and augmented sixth chords, mode mixture, and modulations. Jazz - [Chapter 9](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-9/) - Functional Diatonic Harmony In this chapter, you will learn the ways that harmonies tend to interact with one another in the context of tonality. You’ll also explore how the basic phrase model of tonic—dominant—tonic is expanded using predominant, inverted, passing, and non-functional chords. While much of the chapter is devoted to common-practice harmony, you’ll also - [Chapter 8](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-8/) - Melodic Sequencing This chapter uncovers production secrets for creating realism with sequenced melodies. After being introduced to virtual instruments, synthesizers, and samplers, you’ll learn standard sequencing techniques such as key switching, velocity switching, and volume automation. open in new window Audio Examples Download all audio files Figures Flashcards Click on the word to get the - [Chapter 7](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-7/) - Introduction to Acoustics Taking the harmonic structures from Chapter 3 as a point of departure, Chapter 7 introduces you to the physics of music. Using both music notation and screenshots of the piano roll editor from various DAWs, this chapter describes the overtone series and its relationship to orchestration in both traditional and commercial settings, - [Chapter 6](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-6/) - Manipulating Rhythm in the DAW Environment Continuing the theme from Chapter 2, this chapter demonstrates the ways in which rhythms are manifested in the digital audio workstation. Topics include sequencing basics, the score editor, grid adjustments, meter and tempo in the DAW, and quantization. Additionally, you’ll be introduced to common rhythmic correction techniques within various - [Chapter 5](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-5/) - Introduction to Audio and MIDI This chapter, which is the first engineering/sequencing chapter in Part I, introduces you to digital audio and MIDI as well as the technologies used to manipulate them. Topics include digital audio, MIDI, decibel scales, clipping, and more. You will also continue to explore the piano roll editor within the digital - [Chapter 4](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-4/) - Melody and Counterpoint Through a graduated species approach, you will learn fundamental melodic principles and voice-leading tendencies in this chapter, setting you up for success in subsequent studies of harmony. Topics proceed from an overview of counterpoint and types of contrapuntal motion to an accelerated treatment of first- to fifth-species writing. You will also begin - [Chapter 3](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-3/) - Introduction to Harmony This fundamentals chapter initiates a study of harmony that is threaded throughout subsequent composition chapters in Part IIa. In this chapter, you will be introduced to major and minor scales, key signatures, intervals, and the concepts of consonance and dissonance before exploring triads and seventh chords in major and minor keys, inverted - [Chapter 2](https://routledgelearning.com/cccm/chapter-2/) - Introduction to Rhythm This chapter continues a study of music fundamentals with a focused treatment of rhythm and related notation. You will be introduced to simple and compound meters, common rhythmic values, dots and ties, flags and beams, meter signatures, and syncopation. 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