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Category: Harmony

Categories HarmonyTheoryTools for Composers

Tips for Learning Chord Families

Author DanLisMusic Posted on Posted on March 11, 2018
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A framework for further study on chord families.

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Categories HarmonyMelodyPedagogyReviewsTheoryTools for Composers

The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux’s “Gradus Ad Parnassum”

Author DanLisMusic Posted on Posted on December 21, 2017
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This book could occupy all of your time if you wished. It is an essential read for every composer, containing the manual that nearly all great classical composers learned from. Contemporary composers still use it today both as a way to learn and a tool for teaching their students.

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Categories AnalysisconceptFormHarmonyInstrumentationListen to thisMelodyNotation/EngravingOrchestrationPedagogyScore CallsTheorytimbreTools for Composers

P.M. Joyce – FairyTale

Author DanLisMusic Posted on Posted on October 19, 2017
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P.M. Joyce’s work “Fairytale” is a well-polished work that would work well in a film score.

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Categories AnalysisFormHarmonyListen to thisMelodyPedagogyReviewstextureTheoryTools for Composers

Koti Jaddu – Untitled

Author DanLisMusic Posted on Posted on October 16, 2017
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Koti Jaddu’s submission to the Young Composer Score call reads right out of a book of preludes

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Categories AnalysisHarmonyListen to thisMelodyOrchestrationPedagogyReviewsRhythmTeachingtexturetimbre

Zekai Liu – Enigma

Author DanLisMusic Posted on Posted on October 13, 2017
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Zekai Liu’s work Enigma is a racing whirlwind of rhythm and the A blues scale.

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Categories AnalysisconceptFormHarmonyIssuesListen to thisMelodyOpinionPsychology of MusicReviewsRhythmTheorytimbreTools for Composers

Timothy Lee Miller – “Divinitus”

Author DanLisMusic Posted on Posted on October 6, 2017
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Firmly rooted in the American Mavericks tradition, this work fuses hymns with polytonality and misalignment, a la Charles Ives.

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Scott Blasco – “Queen of Heaven”

Author DanLisMusic Posted on Posted on October 2, 2017
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Scott Blasco’s work “Queen of Heaven” is a devotional-type meditation for piano and electronics.

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