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Music Polyminiatures: Suggestion to include links to short pieces of yours

Hello (sorry my yesterday's post had a broken link),

I created a new YouTube channel:

 

https://www.youtube.com/@Polyminiatures

 

It is devoted to a new music form/genre, which I call Music Polyminiature. The definition of this form/genre can be found in

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Musical Polyminiatures: Please add links to your miniatures

Hello, 

I defined a somewhat new music form, or genre, called Music Polyminiature, and more generally, Music Polycomposition. This is described in the first video of channel 

 

https://www.youtube.com/@Polyminiatures

 

(Please press READ MORE in the chann

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Question for atonalists

In this Schoenberg score, why are the flats flats instead of their enharmonic equivalent sharps, and vice versa?  Would it make any difference?

 

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Canon Project

So, last year I started this project where I would be writing a large set of canons. Then I kind of forgot about it as I started composing other pieces and then writing a book. But now, I'm getting back to it. There are many reasons I'm doing this pr

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Dorico Pro 4 Film Score - Score Relief 2022 - Sprite Fright

I've added a tutorial to my YouTube channel on how I approach the production of a written score that goes to the orchestra.

Being a Jazz musician, and piano player with skills in improvisation, I prefer to write my scores in Cubase.

Here are the steps:

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Harp composition book

I recently came across a book some people on this website may be interested in: The Pocket Guide to Harp Composing by Darhon Rees-Rohrbacher. This is a guide to composing for the harp written for composers who don't themselves play harp.  It's fairly

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Good ol' tonal stuff

As a retiree, I can do whatever I want. Although vandalizing a bus shelter still seems to be prohibited. But other than that, I live it up.

In the summer I started writing string quartets. Mostly because I was bored. I no longer teach (music theory an

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What is open instrumentation?

I sometimes see calls for scores using "Open Instrumentation," but they never explain what that is, and I can't find a clear explanaion of it anywhere.  Can anyone explain what it means.  Thanks.

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chorus i wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrtwtvxU3hU
score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/198kSjzcmT7LQXExxpd-wRftUlSbX4GTo/view

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A New Style

If you had to create a new style of classical music, how would you do it? Would you build upon a past style? Would you use a technology-based process? And, what would you call it?

I understand that there was an attempt to counteract minimalism, with

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Basic question about first species counterpoint.

According to http://openmusictheory.com/firstSpecies.html

One should "Avoid combining similar motion with leaps".

But similar motion requires two different intervals.

So presumably at least one of them must be a leap.

What am I missing here?

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Forthcoming talk on the Newtonal principle

I'm giving a short talk for the London Composers Forum on the Newtonal principle, and the technique of Thomes & Phaees, this coming Monday, 16thmarch. Please contact me if you wish to attend.

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Five by Five

I accepted an invitation to write a short piece using only five unique chords.

Two things about this:

1. It uses substituted dominants based on flattened supertonics and

2. Apart from a couple of passing notes all the melody notes are from the “upp

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Your composing life

This is a collection of questions, which may be somewhat basic (and could even appear naive - but they are not), to stimulate thoughts on the process of how we are growing (or have grown) into composers.

1) How much in a waking day are you keeping y

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About our drives and ways

I think music is way more about wisdom (as in dealing with the ambiguous) and judgment (as a sense, a sense that is in aligment with reality, that being any reality at all, our own included). So, while we compose we may have a goal (we kinda wish our

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Question about Notation

Hello, everyone! I look forward to joining in on some musical discussions as most of my peers aren't all that into sitting for hours deciding between a "dotted eighth and a sixteenth" and a "quarter note, eighth note" triplet.

My question is what wou

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Specific goal in tricky time signature

I'm a mostly self-taught composer working on an opera that sets a prose text.  The time signatures change wildly to reflect speech rhythms.  I am writing it for now in piano/vocal with lots of instruments indicated textually.  I came to a measure whe

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Writing a Passacaglia

Hello,

I am planning to write a Passacaglia for small orchestra on an already given theme. It is meant to be relatively modern, but (mostly) tonal.

So, I have got a few questions here:

- What are your favourite Passacaglias you could recommend to stu

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Emotions and Colors associated with Musical keys; also Pitch associated with Colors

These articles contain a selection of information from the Internet about the emotion or mood associated with musical keys, and also the correlation between musical keys and Goethe's Color wheel.

Also included are pitch and color associations.

What i

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Effective spotting

I'm new to this forum, so 'hi' :-)

I have to admit, the hardest part for me is spotting correctly. Do it wrong, and you waste a lot of time trying to write music to a teflon-coated scene that just shrugs off anything you write.

At the moment I have

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