Favourite Composition Devices

hmm lots!


active percussion
melody flowing between section to section
HUGE timpani rolls
trombone glises
parallel fifths (eh)

Originally Posted by garrett!

trombone glises

*high five*

Originally Posted by Mark

awesome, care to post it...?

Here it is, the melody actually isn't a straight major/minor melody, but it's the same basic idea...

oooh, very unsettling, similar to the effect I normally get

I like irregular time signatures.
like 5/8, 7/8, 11/8, 7/4, 5/4.
Or changing time sig every measure.

Why not try using no time signatures at all? I'm personally trying to move away from music restricted by time signatures. (this doesen't just require dropping the barlines, trust me.. I need to restructure my mind and.. bah *confused*)

I enjoy doing just the opposite of 920bpm: harmonizing a completely diatonic tonal bass line with completely chromatic and non-tonal upper voices.

That sounds most awesome, well, minus the non-tonal bit of course I must try that.

No time signature. That sounds, um, interesting and hard to play.

Colin Thomson

That sounds really cool! Would it just be normal music but with no barlines and a really free sense of rhythm? So it would impossible to fit the melody into any time signature. I'm suddenly intrigued It would be so FREEING to master that technique I can think of all the amazing "rubato" pieces. So, do you just start with one melody/line that's free of any traditional rhythmic structure?