A framework for further study on chord families.
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The Study of Counterpoint: From Johann Joseph Fux’s “Gradus Ad Parnassum”
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.
Read MoreP.M. Joyce – FairyTale
P.M. Joyce’s work “Fairytale” is a well-polished work that would work well in a film score.
Read MoreKoti Jaddu – Untitled
Koti Jaddu’s submission to the Young Composer Score call reads right out of a book of preludes
Read MoreZekai Liu – Enigma
Zekai Liu’s work Enigma is a racing whirlwind of rhythm and the A blues scale.
Read MoreTimothy Lee Miller – “Divinitus”
Firmly rooted in the American Mavericks tradition, this work fuses hymns with polytonality and misalignment, a la Charles Ives.
Read MoreScott Blasco – “Queen of Heaven”
Scott Blasco’s work “Queen of Heaven” is a devotional-type meditation for piano and electronics.
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