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Looking for help writing melodies
Question for bardic/musician friends: does anyone have any resources for how to write melodies?
I've gotten pretty decent at writing poems, and that's mostly because I've learned the building blocks of how it's done. I know, for example, that ballad meter usually works better for me for sillier or lighter pieces (like The Rubber Duckies of Dione Sidhe or The Shrieking Monkey Debacle) but iambic tetrameter works better for more serious pieces (Poem for the Plants), and dactylic tetrameter works well for more warlike pieces (like The Clash of Three Armies).
I know that the standard ballad meter rhyme scheme (ABCB) will make people focus on the meter (like in The Ballad of Marian's Scones), and I can play with that (like in The Man with the Long Bow, where "bow" is clearly meant to stand in for a naughty word that rhymes with quick, trick, stick, etc.) On the other hand, I can change up the rhyme scheme ever so slightly (ABBA) to make a poem seem much more courtly (The Lady Bardicci). Or I can deliberately enjamb most of the line to make a poem sound more like natural speech (The Tale of Reprobus).
These are all choices I make pretty early on in writing a poem, right around the same time that I choose whether I want it to be serious or silly, courtly or common, intricate or simple. I don't even know what the equivalent choices are in melody-writing, let alone how to pick! So... help please! How would I go about starting to learn this?!? Thanks in advance!
I've gotten pretty decent at writing poems, and that's mostly because I've learned the building blocks of how it's done. I know, for example, that ballad meter usually works better for me for sillier or lighter pieces (like The Rubber Duckies of Dione Sidhe or The Shrieking Monkey Debacle) but iambic tetrameter works better for more serious pieces (Poem for the Plants), and dactylic tetrameter works well for more warlike pieces (like The Clash of Three Armies).
I know that the standard ballad meter rhyme scheme (ABCB) will make people focus on the meter (like in The Ballad of Marian's Scones), and I can play with that (like in The Man with the Long Bow, where "bow" is clearly meant to stand in for a naughty word that rhymes with quick, trick, stick, etc.) On the other hand, I can change up the rhyme scheme ever so slightly (ABBA) to make a poem seem much more courtly (The Lady Bardicci). Or I can deliberately enjamb most of the line to make a poem sound more like natural speech (The Tale of Reprobus).
These are all choices I make pretty early on in writing a poem, right around the same time that I choose whether I want it to be serious or silly, courtly or common, intricate or simple. I don't even know what the equivalent choices are in melody-writing, let alone how to pick! So... help please! How would I go about starting to learn this?!? Thanks in advance!
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Yikesola! *chagrin*
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