Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label classical. Show all posts
Sunday, January 21, 2024

Pandiatonicism 1; Is It a Thing?

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The term "pandiatonicism" was coined by Nicolas Slonimsky in the second edition of Music Since 1900  (1938) to describe harmonic l...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Music Notation Software – Pros and Cons for Composers

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There are several music notation programmes available for computers and tablets, but the brands that I suspect most composers use are Final...
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Blog Index — Organized by Topic (®Sept/2016)

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Welcome to another year of composition studies! I wish you much growth and success on your journey to becoming the best composer you can be....
Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Form in Post-Tonal Music (Questionnaire answers: #4, 5, & 6)

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Question 4 from my " Form in Post-Tonal Music (1) " post is this: 4.  On a scale of 1 (low) to 10 (high), how important is form ...
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Friday, March 7, 2014

Form in Post-Tonal Music (Questionnaire answers: #3)

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Question 3 from my " Form in Post-Tonal Music (1) " post is this: 3.  Should post-tonal music avoid forms associated with tonal ...
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Thursday, March 6, 2014

Form in Post-Tonal Music (Questionnaire answers: #2)

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Question 2 from my " Form in Post-Tonal Music (1) " post is this: 2.  Most compositions from the 18th- and 19th-centuries use a ...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Idiomatic Writing for Piano (re-post)

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    I wrote the basis of this post four years ago, and subsequently expanded and improved it several times,  adding many music examples (or...
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