OliverSmith Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Hello everybody! The overtone serie... : I think is essential for any kind of composition, to know and master the overtones serie. It's important to compose knowing how the sounds behave. You can experiment this on the piano or, more clearly on a guitar. Do you have the overtones in mind when you compose? Here a very nice explanation and helpful article about the overtone series. Hope you find it helpful too! https://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/post/overtone-series-harmonicity-and-anharmonicity-as-the-foundation-of-harmony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caters Posted December 8, 2020 Share Posted December 8, 2020 I do for orchestral and chamber music. Solo piano though, I don't really outside of the deep bass, where I know a sixth sounds more like an augmented fifth in the case of the minor sixth or a diminished seventh in the case of the major sixth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OliverSmith Posted December 13, 2020 Author Share Posted December 13, 2020 Nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polaris Posted December 15, 2020 Share Posted December 15, 2020 Any composer who makes a decision to use one instrument's timbre rather than another is thinking about overtones whether they're explicitly aware of it or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarletmichelle Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 (edited) On 12/8/2020 at 10:42 PM, OliverSmith said: Hello everybody! The overtone serie... : I think is essential for any kind of composition, to know and master the overtones serie. It's important to compose knowing how the sounds behave. You can experiment this on the piano or, more clearly on a guitar. Do you have the overtones in mind when you compose? Here a very nice explanation and helpful article about the overtone series. Hope you find it helpful too! https://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/post/overtone-series-harmonicity-and-anharmonicity-as-the-foundation-of-harmony The post is very helpful and I love that, different melodies with thousands of melodies at Worldringtones. Edited December 24, 2020 by scarletmichelle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aMusicComposer Posted December 24, 2020 Share Posted December 24, 2020 I do think it's important to think about both the overtone series, and perhaps even more importantly finding a good ringtone. I'm glad I've finally been given the knowledge of where to look for them. Thank you, thank you! Seriously though, it can be very useful to think about harmonics. As (@PaperComposer SORRY I CAN'T GET RID OF THIS TAG) @Polaris said, choosing any instrument involves the overtones. When writing for combinations such as the wind quintet, voicing chords can be greatly helped by knowing which harmonics emphasise each other. You can even create the effect of there being more notes than there are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larapoe Posted March 22, 2021 Share Posted March 22, 2021 I do think about the overtone series, especially in considering how to voice chords that use the bass register. It's very easy to make the bass quite muddy and unintelligible, and most of the time I want clarity (unless I'm going for a specific effect). I will also sometimes use spectral techniques in my music, and then I definitely think about the overtone series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aMusicComposer Posted March 23, 2021 Share Posted March 23, 2021 If you're clever with your chord voicing, you can create the impression of notes than "aren't there," just the harmonics reinforcing each other to produce another note. This is especially helpful when writing for small wind ensembles (quartets, quintets, sextets) which I do a lot of, and there never seems to be the right number of instruments! Unfortunately, it gets difficult to write proper progressions but it's great for single chords. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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