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cj31387 · Post by **cj31387** » Sat May 30, 2015 7:44 am

Hi does anyone have any links or information on composing songs based off mood. I would like to specialize in that and learn it well. Are there any books that may help with figuring out how to make a song sound epic, or scary, or lovely, or cool, or sad, or happy, or dark, or gloomy? I know in the romantic era there was a huge emphasis on composing by mood, are there any books I should pick up on this topic, any info anyone can link. Courses, youtube videos, books, anything someone can recommend? Thanks!

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sat May 30, 2015 8:32 am

Interesting Topic.

Just did a quick search and found some information on wikipedia. There are a ton of links at the end of the article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_and_emotion

anomandaris1 · Post by **anomandaris1** » Fri Jun 05, 2015 12:51 pm

Major - positive, Minor - negative, using minor seconds = sadness/fear, Tritone - shock/horror, epic = major/octaves/fourths/fifths, clusters = darkness/ horror, coolness = minor pentatonic, middle eastern = hiatus with some detuning, far east = pentatonics, dreamy = whole tone scale, augmented chords, diminished scale = scary stuff, spanish feel = phrygian and neapolitan variants, blues = dominant seventh chords.
You must know how the different chords and scales sound, so you can easily compose moody progressions and melodies.

beegee · Post by **beegee** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:07 pm

Secret Composer is a really good flash based digital text, and has sections on moods. Try the demo first as it hasn't been updated for a while - needs constant refreshing on some browsers, I'm using it with Firefox and it's fine. http://www.secretcomposer.com

Table of Contents: http://www.secretcomposer.com/toc/Table ... -_demo.htm

cj31387 · Post by **cj31387** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 10:55 am

anomandaris1 wrote:Major - positive, Minor - negative, using minor seconds = sadness/fear, Tritone - shock/horror, epic = major/octaves/fourths/fifths, clusters = darkness/ horror, coolness = minor pentatonic, middle eastern = hiatus with some detuning, far east = pentatonics, dreamy = whole tone scale, augmented chords, diminished scale = scary stuff, spanish feel = phrygian and neapolitan variants, blues = dominant seventh chords.
You must know how the different chords and scales sound, so you can easily compose moody progressions and melodies.

Wow minor pentatonic does sound cool sounding. How did you learn all this?

Composing based off mood?