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
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Read more…After a comment that one of my pieces entitled a waltz, did not sound like a waltz to one member listener, i had a really fascinating discussion with a composer friend (one of those nice "late night" music discussions)... and we began to explore musi
Read more…Is there a secret to give the rythm of a melody an "objective"(or more of this characteristic) to make the music less relying on harmony?
Read more…I just came across this. It is an article, imo, about the future of all live art music and about the future of all of us either as performers, composers or both.
My basic thought is that if they can attack Wagner's Ring then they can attack everythin
Read more…I am fascinated by your absolute rejection of "atonal". I agree that it is kind of a "catch-all" term. Yet so is "classical", for that matter.
As an American English speaker (not to be confused with British English), and in possession of a Music Ed
Read more…Gav brought this up in his ballad thread. I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on this, and expand it beyond his piece.
A few ground rules.
1. I'm kind of tired of my topics going to the "Useless Drivel" pile. A few of you that are still here think y
Read more…This thread's theme may be related to questions arising from Ray's recent threads on musical intentions/resulting performances and main requirements towards producing interesting music, but I thought the subject of auto-accompaniment software may mer
Read more…I don't know if anyone cares. But it has been awhile since I posted last on these forums. I have composed a lot since then. I have in all sincerity got much better at composing. If I have a specialisation for composing it is piano, electro piano and
Read more…For awhile I have wanted to put together a guide on how music educators and music curriculum designers can do maximum damage to a kid's ability to enjoy, and get ahead with, music. I have decided to put it here. Just for you. This is the guide that
Read more…A few months ago I composed about 15 minutes of electronic music of various instruments/synthesizers using FL Studio. I had a theme that connected all my pieces. I had a musical style going. I liked my work at that point. My intent was to get to 30
Read more…The question has come up many times here as to what is music.
Isn't that questioned answered by what you compose?
Isn't what you write a reflection of what you believe music is
and/or should be. Or are you merely imitating the efforts and
precedents
Read more…In late 2015 I sent an email to three music teachers in my area. I said to them that as an adult I wanted to learn music theory. I said that I didn't know anything about music but I was enthusiastic.
I got no reply whatsoever. All three music teach
Read more…The Roman historian Livy tells this interesting tale of what happened on one occasion when musicians in the city went on strike en masse. The condescending tone towards musicians is obvious at the outset, when Livy says this story is of little cons
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Pearl Harbor Music and Commemorations? Meaningless Pseudo-Patriotic Claptrap to justify future wars?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK3pYAJO1cU
People are invited listen to a piece of Music by Zimmer, from "Pearl Harbor," and to consider thi
Read more…It seems to me that this is where some of the energy lost from traditional classical music went to: the great progressive rock movement of the 70s. Called Art-Rock or Progressive-Rock, or Prog-Rock, it featured rock musicians who were about more than
Read more…I wonder if this is a gross misuse of music and an instance of the exploitation of our youth in the United States, for the purposes of advancing narrow political interests and a policy of militarism.
I heard this story, and the accompanying music
Read more…Classical music is dying.The fundamental problem is a lack of contemporary emotionally compelling compositions,because listeners get no emotional reward from most contemporary classical music ,orchestras are forced to repeat a small number of compos
Read more…Opus numbers. Once a mainstay of music publishing. Now, not so much.
As a contemporary composer, is it pretentious to put opus numbers on self-published compositions?
Read more…It seems that anytime you get classical musicians or composers together on an online forum the topic, or really the flame inducing debate, of atonal vs. tonal music comes up. Though atonal music (or to use the more inclusive term post-tonal) has been
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On January 6, 2015 at 1:24pm, Chris Alpiar said, on one of the Music Debate threads,
“ … it’s my understanding that we made this new music debate forum for the sake of discussions that while still must pertain to music, we can get into other asp
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