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.
Read more…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
Read more…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?
Read more…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.
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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
Read more…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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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
Read more…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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