Skriv sange … Komponér klange 1 (Write songs … compose chords 1)
From strange tones to special melodies
These small books are for anyone who wants to learn how to write songs and put something around them in the form of chords and arrangement.
Every book has a limited subject – beginning in the first book with the most simple tools for writing a song.
The following books then, in various ways, look at harmony and arrangement. The stylistic basis ranges wide from folk songs to compositions by John Høybye. The same goes for harmony and arrangement: from the first multi-part tries with simple harmonies to arrangements for choir and instruments with advanced harmony.
The books are progressively built up. The opening level is based on the reader being able to read music and play a llittle, but not necessarily mastering music theory. The access is both inviting and in a very firm struchture, the aim of which it is to built bridge between the reader’s own creativity and the theoretic tools available.
Every book closes with a summing up of of a music therory survey over the subjects applied.
Volume 1 has only one focus: To make a melody.
Dansk Sang
2012
978-87-7612-754-1
Gymnasieskolens musiklærerforenings blad, Musikbladet (udpluk):
… Mogens Christensen har gjort det lettere at sætte fokus på melodi … I sin bog ” Skriv sange og komponér klange” samles alt det, man bør vide og kunne, når man skal arbejde med melodier …
I modsætning til det lærebogsmateriale, vi allerede kender, knytter Mogens Christensen kendskabet til intervaller og rytme tæt sammen med arbejdet med netop melodisk materiale, hvilket giver overordentlig god mening. Her går teori og praksis op i en højere enhed – et mål, vi jo altid tilstræber, fordi det bliver indlysende for eleverne, hvorfor det er vigtigt at have et begrebsmæssigt og teoretisk fundament …
Det er altid vanskeligt at diskutere kvalitet med eleverne, fordi det nemt forveksles med god og dårlig smag, men her tror jeg faktisk, at Mogens Christensen har fat i en pointe og en tilgang, der kan gøre det nemmere at give respons på de melodier eleverne evt. selv udarbejder i et forløb om sangskrivning.
(Mette Hoffman Bøegh). Læs hele anmeldelsen som pdf.
