The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition
eBook - ePub

The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition

Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production

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eBook - ePub

The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition

Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production

About this book

The Routledge Handbook to Metal Music Composition: Evolution of Structure, Expression, and Production examines metal music composition as a distinct practice that combines a complex array of formal musical, expressive, and technological elements. Reaching beyond the limitations of applying common-practice theories of tonality to metal, this volume brings together a wide range of established and emerging scholars to address the building blocks of metal composition in the context of metal's subgenres and evolution over time. Together, the chapters provide a holistic theoretical framework for understanding the distinctive compositional features of metal.

With contributions from an international group of experts, the handbook is organized into four parts around major themes:

• Structures, including form, riff, harmony, rhythm, and meter
• Expressions and Techniques: Instruments
• Expressions and Techniques: Voices
• Productions, addressing the role of gear, capturing, processing, and mixing technologies.

The contributors examine and discuss these elements with the goal of building an understanding of metal music composition that can also function as a manual for composing metal music. Providing a comprehensive overview of the unique musical elements of metal, this handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students across popular music studies, musicology, creative music performance and composition, songwriting, and production studies, as well as for anyone interested in understanding metal from the perspective of composition.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781040354520
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of Contributors
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Introduction: Appreciating, Understanding, and Interpreting Metal Music Composition
  12. Part I Structures
  13. Part II Expressions and Techniques: Instruments
  14. Part III Expressions and Techniques: Voices
  15. Part IV Productions
  16. Index