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Musical Inventions, 1st Edition
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Musical Inventions, 1st Edition

by Kathy Ceceri
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
256 pages
7h 34m
English
Make: Community
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Afterword: It's Not Music Until You Make It Musical

As you learned at the beginning of this book, music is a series of sounds that has pattern, repetition, and meaning. The projects in this book show you how to create all kinds of interesting sounds: tweets, blatts, pops, slides, bangs, buzzes, whistles, and pure ringing tones. But to make them musical, you have to shape and arrange them, to give them a form that listeners can recognize and understand.

This is what musical inventors have done since the first cave dweller blew into a hollow bone. And it is what musical inventors do today when they build instruments from found objects or create them using the latest technology.

As a musical inventor, you should always keep your eyes and ears ...

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