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Course in counterpoint

2008-03-31 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Compose an invention Due: Apr.23 (Wed Apr.16 - Wednesday In class: Invention study and sketching Week 4: Apr.21 - Monday In class: Study of inventions; critiques of inventions in progress Apr.23 - Wednesday In class: Playback and critique of inventions Week 5: Apr.28 - Monday In class: Fugal expositions Homework: Compose a fugal exposition...
 
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Suite History: Duke Ellington, Oliver Nelson, John Carter, and the African-American Odyssey

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2008-02-04 23:49:59 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...composers began to write extended musical depictions of black American lifeScott Joplin with his unstaged opera Treemonisha , pianist James P. Johnson with his Yamekraw: a Negro Rhapsody , andperhaps most successfully William Grant Still with his Afro-American Symphony in 1931. That same year Duke Ellington told a reporter, Im going to...
 
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Dot.AY interview with Pixelh8

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2008-02-04 22:26:00 by Anthony in Game Music 4 All
...compose with, and often at the moment although it will soon change I am using a sampler live as it would be nearly impossible to play all of the instruments at once, but with my new live set up yeah the original consoles and computers will be there with me on stage I do and have been using the game boy synth a lot live though not just for...
 
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Around The World (27)

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2008-04-11 19:51:00 by Rho in Rho-Xs
...composers. A particularly important influence was Johann Christian Bach, who met Mozart in London in 176465 Following his final return with his father from his third successful trip to Italy (13 March 1773), Mozart was employed as a court musician by the ruler of Salzburg Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo. Mozart was a "favorite son" in...
 
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We Are All Amaranth

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2008-05-07 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...composer Ah, where to start? I met James years ago, in our formerly-shared hometown of Seattle. Truly a regular-Joe in person, giving little hint of the ornate wheels spinning underneath. An anecdote on James blog seems a perfect illustration of the man and the work A Minimalist Experience A boring Sunday, really not so much different than...
 
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We Are All Amaranth

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2008-05-07 16:06:25 by Steve Layton in Sequenza21/
...composer Ah, where to start? I met James years ago, in our formerly-shared hometown of Seattle. Truly a regular-Joe in person, giving little hint of the ornate wheels spinning underneath. An anecdote on James blog seems a perfect illustration of the man and the work A Minimalist Experience A boring Sunday, really not so much different than...
 
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Repetition in music

2008-08-06 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...compose a certain amount of instant music with loops As I continue to brainstorm about offering a new core music theory course for an incoming class of Freshmen who are music, world music, and music history majors, I see this as an integral part of our learning method. I am ordering a whole book of African rhythms. I can imagine starting a...
 
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Composing for Orchestra

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2008-10-05 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
...composer works to develop the skill of making his music 'sound' well in as many different contexts as possible. An opera composer must possess yet another set of skills: how to score for an acoustic orchestra playing sixteen feet below the stage as opposed to one onstage, how to accommodate singers singing without amplification without...
 
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Pushing Notes Around

2008-10-22 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...composers I have come to love working with most arrive at their lessons prepared to work like dogs, prepared if necessary to wrest from me the practical skills they need to survive. These determined ones, bursting with questions, demanding to be heard in the ear-splitting musical din of contemporary Manhattan , are as disinterested in...
 
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Amazing & Humorous Interview With Richard Maxfield

2008-11-01 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...compose music during his one year in the service Maxfield attended Stanford University for one year, where he continued to compose, and his works were played on the University radio station. Upon hearing Roger Sessions' The Trial of Lucullus, premiered at Berkeley in April 1947, he decided to transfer to the University of California to study...
 
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