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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Exploring Music with No Melody, part 2

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In part one , we compared a ridiculous number (20) of definitions of the word, melody, and came up with our own, functional-but-flawed def...
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Thursday, January 7, 2016

Exploring Music with No Melody, part 1

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Does good music require a melody? Does the melody have to be something memorable that we can sing or whistle after having heard it? And wha...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

"If you can name it, don't use it" (3; my take)

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The background for this entry is that  Jessica Blenis , a former student of mine, reported receiving this advice during graduate studies an...
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Sunday, February 5, 2012

How much theory do you have to know in order to be a composer?

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This is a question that I am sometimes asked, and it came up recently in a conversation I had with Karim Al-Zand , the visiting composer for...
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Clark Ross
I am a composer of music for soloists, chamber groups, orchestra, voice, and electronics, as well as a guitarist and professor of Composition and Theory (since 1992) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. I teach Composition, 2nd-year Music Theory (chromatic harmony and large form classical music), Renaissance Counterpoint, Baroque Counterpoint, and Music Technology. I have also taught Electronic Music, Orchestration, 20th-Century Techniques, Music History, Ear-Training, and Classical Guitar. I welcome feedback from all non-spam bots! If you have any suggestions of topics you'd like me to cover in future posts, please let me know!
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