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What is your process on analyzing and fully understanding a piece?
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Say you have a client who tells you, "I want you to make me an original music. But I want it to sound like John Powell's This Is Berk from the movie How to Train Your Dragon." And you have access to…Continue
How should I spend my hours to learn composing?
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"Fredrick said,
"This is a good way to analyze listeners impressions of a composition but I doubt if it sheds any light on the compositional technique of the composer. Analysis of composional technique is a pretty well accepted way of…"
"As an expert in opinion Juls, I will add my 2 cents;
I think key is the least important of the 4 items listed.
High on my list would be the particular style of musical
phrasing that I think is the 'signature' of each…"
"Analyzing is the Deductive method. The Osmotic, or intuitive way, is to simply listen to lots of music. I do so constantly. At times the radio is playing while I am actually composing. By listening to so much music, your brain forms over time…"
"I always thought the best way to analyze a piece of music was to sit down in a room with someone who has an excellent sound system. Gather together a very small group of people, as few as two or three, maybe as many as four or five. These must be…"
""Perhaps something can be learned by examining how Prokofiev arrived at the music in his "classical" symphony. Did he study Haydn for this exercise?"
Off the top of my head, I would suggest the following. Prokofiev…"
"I do get that. Makes me glad I only compose for fun."
"Because when a director has a movie with a temp track and it's temp track he likes a lot, he doesn't actually want the composer to create "something new". He wants that exact piece that's already in the movie, done again.…"
"Whatever works. for some, analysis works. for others, it's more intuitive. Study will help you pass courses. but only listening, with an artist's ear, will really help you become a composer."
"Hi Greg and Michael!
Thanks for answering! You two made good points. And I want to ask you two or anyone who reads this: What if you want to sound like an artist to expand your "range" or just really understand what's…"
"Being an amateur who composes just for fun, I probably shouldn't answer this. But my instinctive reaction is, why would I want to pretend to be someone else? And why would someone want me to? If they want so and so, they should try to get so…"
"But if a client says this, what he means is he wants the piece to sound TO HIM like Powell's whatshisname. YOUR understanding of the key elements in the source may or may not be relevant, but generally relying fully on your own analysis can…"
What is your process on analyzing and fully understanding a piece?
Say you have a client who tells you, "I want you to make me an original music. But I want it to sound like John Powell's This Is Berk from the movie How to Train Your Dragon." And you have access to the score of it. What do you do? What is your process and how do you try to understand a piece? I think being able to write an original music that sounds like the one you're analyzing means you at least understand something about the piece. What do you look for? Instrumentation? Key? Form?…See More
"Yeah, I don't why this happened. I can post PDFs on the main page but not on a reply. Unfortunately I don't have the files on this computer, I will have to retrieve them later from my home base. If you like, I could email them to you. My…"
"Here's some more counter-point PDFs that I found...Thought you might like them."
"Glad you like it! Personally I love counterpoint. I use it to some degree in all of my writing, even if only to break the rules of counterpoint. The idea of keeping each line independent applies no matter if I am writing a fugue or a shredding metal…"
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- At 5:56pm on September 18, 2014,
composerrogue said…
Yeah, I don't why this happened. I can post PDFs on the main page but not on a reply. Unfortunately I don't have the files on this computer, I will have to retrieve them later from my home base. If you like, I could email them to you. My email is composerrogue@gmail.com.
- At 10:44am on September 13, 2014,
Here's some more counter-point PDFs that I found...Thought you might like them.
- At 11:01am on August 27, 2014,
michael diemer said…
Welcome Juis!
We’d like to hear your music! The main area for posting is the “Music Analysis and Critique” discussion, which is here:
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Glad to have you aboard and hope you enjoy the Composers Forum!
Michael Diemer
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