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Showing posts with label Ostinato. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ostinato. Show all posts
Thursday, January 3, 2019

Welcome to 2019!

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Welcome to my advanced composition students! I look forward to working with you this term. At the end of this morning's class, I playe...
Sunday, April 2, 2017

Ostinatos; making a lot from a little (2. Rite of Spring)

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Further to my previous blog entry … If the 339 consecutive repetitions of a 2-bar rhythmic ostinato pattern in Ravel's Boléro (1928...
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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Ostinatos; making a lot from a little (1. Boléro)

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An ostinato is a musical idea that repeats immediately (as opposed to returning later in the composition) and persistently (it usually is r...
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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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