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Will anyone have any new years resolutions relating to composition?
I would like to finish the several St Quartets I am working on and my 1st piano sonata, as well as a trio for P,VC and clarinet.
Anyone else?
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Funny you mentioned a 1st piano sonata. I've just started one a few weeks ago, and now am wrestling with the 2nd movement (which is resisting to be written, but I swear it's only a matter of time!!!). Although this hardly qualifies as a resolution... unless you're talking about the harmonic variety, of course. :-P
And I'm not so sure how one goes about writing a piece for polyvinyl chloride (PVC), but I'm certain you'll figure something out! :-D
Funny you mentioned a 1st piano sonata. I've just started one a few weeks ago, and now am wrestling with the 2nd movement (which is resisting to be written, but I swear it's only a matter of time!!!). Although this hardly qualifies as a resolution... unless you're talking about the harmonic variety, of course. :-P
And I'm not so sure how one goes about writing a piece for polyvinyl chloride (PVC), but I'm certain you'll figure something out! :-D
U just made my day Rodney! Sounds good to me!
Actually the piece is for a clarinet made out of PVC HS... lol
I may follow up with a piece for a tuba made of wood or a cardboard piano accordion...
And I'm working on a tuba concerto, which is TBA ... um... Tba... :-D Still on the fence about whether it would be a wood tuba, though. Would that be a woodbrass instrument (as opposed to woodwind)?
I've always been intrigued by the process Robert Schumann followed for a few years starting in 1840 or so: writing exclusively in a single genre of music each year and, in the process, becoming highly proficient in it. (So in 1840, he wrote only vocal music; in 1841, only orchestral music; in 1842, chamber music, and so on)
Since I've recently discovered that writing choral music is fun for me (and much more enthusiastically accepted by performers than orchestral music), I'm going to try to write one choral piece each month of 2016. Hopefully by the end of the year I'll have learned from my successive blunders and cranking out choral pieces will be like riding a bike--and I'll have plenty of material to submit to competitions and publishers. It may turn out to be a terrible idea, but now (that I'm out of academia but still fairly young and able to write on my own schedule) seems like as good a time as any to experiment.
If this experiment is even marginally successful, I'll try it again in 2017 with concert band music!
My music resolution involve getting my music out in the world more. Send more music out to competitions, call for scores, and performing opportunities.
I would also like to just in generally increase my musical output. Not just write more music, but write music for more unconventional ensembles. I have found myself in a very traditional rut in that I write for very standard ensembles, however, most new music ensembles comprise of unique combination of instruments. I want to explore these unique sounds much more like I did when I was first composing and writing for friends of all kinds of instrument combinations.
Some goals outside of just writing and getting music performed includes starting a groupmuse community in my town. I also want to officially relaunch my youtube channel and finish my writing the lessons for my online course.
Thanks for this thread, Paul, really interesting.
Lol and Thanks 4 the replies. Now that hangovers are hopefully passed anyone else with any music resolutions?
Hello Paul.
I don't have any New Year musical resolutions, but I enjoy writing on your threads, so I thought of something (vaguely) related to write here.
This is more of a goal than a resolution.
My goal is to figure out how to write multiple sections of a longer piece, as opposed to just single short pieces. It's ironic that I should find this difficult because the very first piece I composed ("Offbeat Romance between the Music Box and the Metronome") was a 3-section piece. Yet now I have trouble.
My pieces have a strong melody line, and I think my trouble comes from the difficulty in matching different melody lines without one of them overwhelming/dominating the lot.
Not that I've actually tried real hard. I probably just need to set my mind to doing it, and so that's my goal.
If anyone has hints or advice, I'll welcome it.
Hi Mariza,
In Renaissance composers were also concerned with the brevity of their ideas and they started developing the technique of gradual (as opposed to abrubt) modulation. I think this technique is essential for every composer, as its historically proven aesthetic results are evident. A good vocal (sometimes also instrumental) melody can be a minute long. How do we get a ten minute long piece out of it?
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