Music enthusiasts were educated on the composition of music, at the Composing for Popular Music Workshop, held at the Majuba Lodge Conference Room on July 5.
The Afropolitan Explosiv Initiative, supported by the Goethe-Institut, held its Artist Talk Series, with University of South Africa (UNISA) Composer and Lecturer, Chris Jeffrey.
A dialogue between Jeffrey and attendees took place, where knowledge was exchanged with all things pertaining sound and music.
Jeffrey went into detail about music composition.
“Sound is everything we can hear, and there’s a difference between music and sound. The human hearing is designed for speech, and when you mix music, you want to have a certain frequency. Music has a fundamental pitch, while noise has more than one fundamental pitch, although there’s an infinite number of pitches. You just need to know how create music with those pitches.”
The composer added that it’s important to understand musical progression.
“There’s a songwriter’s progression and there’s the khwela progression, while in a song you also find the verse, chorus and the bridge. The chorus is the most important part section of a song and it must be harmonically distinct, and the bridge must be harmonically adventurous. Harmony tells the story and shapes the overall structure of a song,” he concluded.
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