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  1. Really need a moving piece for my leavers assembly. I have lyrics, anyone write music? Please help! Will make it worth your while :) Email 07rebeccalancashire@longdean.herts.sch.uk
  2. Really need a moving piece for my leavers assembly. I have lyrics, anyone write music? Please help! Will make it worth your while :) Email 07rebeccalancashire@longdean.herts.sch.uk
  3. Do you agree or disagree with the above statement? To agree would mean that no matter how much a person lacking the gift of composition studied, they would never get good at composition just because they lack the gift; and that a person who possesses the gift of composition would display that gift no matter the amount of instruction or study he/she has had in composition. To disagree, on the other hand would mean that a mediocre talent or even one who patently lacks the gift of composition could get good at it thanks to instruction and study; and that a great talent might be totally wasted because of a lack of the proper instruction and study.
  4. On some positive stuff, what is everyone working on? I'm starting on my last two movements of my symphony. It's very programmatic based on scriptures from the Old Testament and I'm learning Dvorak 8th!
  5. Please take the question in a broad sense. I am not just asking why you yourself compose. Try to be philosophical and consider for a moment what might the role and function of musical composition be for humanity, what its goal or purpose could be. Is it the same as the goal of all art or different from that of other arts? What exactly is happening in the creation of a piece of music? To make the question even broader, one might ask "what is the goal of music?"
  6. I think that many a piece of mine could have benefited from further revision had I not decided too soon that it was finished. Now I am becoming more careful before declaring a piece finished. So how and when do you know (or decide) that a piece you are working on is finished?
  7. I have what might be a laughably simple question but does software aiding the process of music composition exist? I'm talking about something similar to screenplay or novel writing software but for music. So I might plug in something like "Sonata" and it would offer various templates for sonata forms, prod me to modulate in the appropriate places etc. Does Sibelius do anything like this? Thanks. Wil
  8. All, I am writing to let you know about a project that I have created which serves to promote and support new compositions for musical theater in a unique way. I ask that you take a look and offer any comments, advice, or feedback that you can. It would be extremely appreciated. I am especially interested in any help in spreading my message and am eager to find original articles, music, or ideas to be shared should you know of any. www.musicalrebirth.com All my best, Joe Hargis Creator, Musical Rebirth Project
  9. Meistersingers is proud to present their 6th Annual Choral Composition Competition. Also, we are extremely excited to release this announcement under the new name, the Knapp Award. Named in honor of Jim and Sally Knapp, ardent supporters of Meistersingers, their commitment will ensure this competition will continue for many years to come. In the 6th year of its existence this competition has received over 400 submissions, more than half created specifically for Meistersingers. With $5000 in prize money awarded to date, to both established and upcoming composers, Meistersingers is committed to fostering the future of the choral art. Please visit www.meistersingers.org for more information and the application Postmark Deadline: March 1, 2012 Prize: *$1,000.00 and at least two performances by Meistersingers *Archival recording for winner’s use toward publishing *Possible commercial recording by Meistersingers There is a $25 entry fee Submission Guidelines: Complete Competition Submission Form (can be downloaded from www.meistersingers.org) Original Composition for 4-8 part SATB a cappella choir (further divisi possible/range is not an issue) Texts focusing on light or dark themes are preferred. 4-8 minutes long Must be a world premiere performance (rehearsal read-throughs are acceptable) Anonymous Submission - Remove all names (except poet, if necessary) and identifying marks; - Provide a sealed envelope containing your name, address, email, the title and performance history of the piece (if applicable), and phone number. Submit a legible, photo-copy ready, score with piano reduction for rehearsal purposes - including a recording (MIDI, piano, etc.) is strongly encouraged but not required. If text is not in public domain, composer is responsible for including written permission to use it Selection Process: The Music Director/Conductor, Brian Dehn, shall review all scores received. A Selection Committee, consisting of members chosen by the Music Director/Conductor and Board, shall review many of the scores received. The decision of the Music Director/Conductor and Selection Committee will be final. Winning Composer will be notified by April 2, 2012 Other Items of Interest: Texts that focus on dark/light/day/night are preferred as our summer concert is centered on those themes. The winning composition is scheduled to be performed in May of 2012 in the Southern California area. Meistersingers encourages the composer’s attendance and cooperation in media publicity and press coverage. The winning composer must provide a final performance score by April 6, 2012. Meistersingers shall make 35 copies for the chorus, director, and rehearsal accompanist. There are no restrictions according to race, sex, or age. A composer may submit more than one piece. Meistersingers reserves the right not to select a winning composition and/or award a prize. A brief description of Meistersingers, including Mission Statement and type of literature performed, can be found on their website: www.meistersingers.org Send all Submissions, along with form to: Meistersingers, Inc. Knapp Award 8941 Atlanta Avenue #187 Huntington Beach, CA 92646 For further information, visit the website or email bdehn@meistersingers.org Application.pdf Knapp info.pdf
  10. How does one self-gauge his/her growth as a composer?
  11. The Composer’s Community Project (ccp) is an experimental platform for music. The aim is to encourage compositions of all musical genres, which will be presented in this blog. Whether it’s Classic, Contemporary Music, Jazz, Rock, Pop, Hip Hop, Indie, Crossover, Folk Music and and and Through the WorldWideWeb ccp wants to reach people, who are open towards new musical and creative experiments – composers, musicians and everybody who loves to write music to be part of the project! The main issue of ccp is to enjoy composing: the platform provides the possibility to share the music with others and to get to know the variety of pieces that are created. The works will be presented on this platform as well as the composers. ccp is also a chance for networking and communication within the blog and other social media platforms. “a melody :: a thousand songs” The Composer’s Community Project is starting with the experiment “a melody :: a thousand songs”. A diversity of compositions will be generated on the basement of a few melodic themes, that have one thing in common: recognizable melodies. The pieces will be collected in a playlist and presented in this blog. They illustrate how diverse and various compositions all created on the same basis can be! How to do Choose three of the four melodies below and create on this basis your individual composition. Which key and tone pitch, rhythm, note value, instrumentation and arrangement, lengths of the piece, whether with vocals and text or without – it all depends on your creativity. The chosen melodies can be extended just as you like – you can compose around them developing your own musical themes. Please note: the melody lines as given should not be changed. Everything besides this is up to you. How to be part of it Record a mp3-file of your piece till the 25th of October 2011 and send it to ccp@musikvermitteln.net. All submitted songs and pieces will be collected in a playlist and linked on different social media platforms. Important: With your name, short bio (approx. 4-5 sentences), photo and eventually your website we can introduce you and your work in an optimum way. If you have any questions – don’t hesitate to contact us: ccp@musikvermitteln.net! Be part of this experiment and share your music with us! – We are looking forward to your song! JUST DO IT! For further information please visit our blog or write a mail to ccp@musikvermitteln.net
  12. .I can't seem to upload this file to "Upload Music" so I'll just put it here This piano trio is from a collection of works called "Tales from Outer Suburbia" based on stories of the same name by the Australian author Shaun Tan. The story of this piece is about a man whose house catches on fire after he beats his dog to death. https://docs.google.com/a/vcass.vic.edu.au/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&srcid=0B1Lo3cSoUa_4NjVhZjQ4OGUtMGFhNC00NjRlLWJlYWUtNzgyYjE4ZjYyNjRi&hl=en_US
  13. So we've talked about jobs and we've talked about school? What else is there? Networking! Be nice to people. Go to concerts. Trust me, if they are in this business, you'll need them (AND I DO MEAN TRUST ME) LISTEN/BE HUMBLE This right here is kryptonite to most people. When people critique your work, listen to what they have to say. It might actually help. ASK for help. You are not Mozart. And even if you are, he still took lessons. It is well documented how other composers listened and critique each others work. TYPESETTING (sigh) I sit here in reminiscing of hearing gorgeous musician that was an eyesore. 1) Make sure your parts are correct. 2) "Just because you heard it that way" doesn't mean you have to write it that way. Yeah, Grainger did it, but most people realize how a pain that movement of Lincolnshire Posy is. 4+ 3 + 2+5+7 + 3= six bars of 4/4. You don't have to be difficult. 3) Make sure your parts are correct 4) Realize that a lot of times you'll only get one rehearsal 5) Make sure your parts are correct 6) Make sure your parts are correct 7) In case you forgot, make sure your parts are correct Contests Contest are fun but I strongly disagree writing for a competition. The resentment that might come later is not worth it (Make sure your parts are correct) Marketing Get a website and market yourself. Have music ready to be read online and for listening (Make sure your parts are correct.) Have an email address that's for branding (i.e. chad@sirwickentertainment.com.) Have a calender of your performances ready. (Make sure your parts are correct) Hope this helps!! Much Love and Musically Yours, Chad "Sir Wick" Hughes PS: I'm off to make sure my parts are correct.
  14. Would someone write me a pop song if I emailed them a few details of what to include? It's to perform in a talent show and I want to do something original but can't write myself!! Help ASAP please :) email 07rebeccalancashire@longdean.herts.sch.uk
  15. Is anyone entering the BBC Young Composer's Competition for 2012. For those of you who don't know, the BBC YCC is a free entry competition for 12-18 year olds. The entries are judged by top composers and the winners are perfomed at the BBC Proms! Also, all highly commended and winning entries are recorded with a live orchestra, and there are no limitations as to what instruments to compose for. Here's a link, for the website, unfortunately, the BBC haven't updated since 2011, so all information is 'old', but stay tuned :) http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/youngcomposers/introduction11.shtml P.S, if anyone finds out anymore information about the competition, please let us know. Thanks. -Phil
  16. Hi guys, I'd like to share with you an interesting new music composition technique that I've been developing since 2009, called inversion synthesis. The core part of the process involves harmonic inversion (for melodies, chord sequences or both) and is a technique made famous by Rachmaninoff with his on a . This alone remains a huge untapped area of great source material, with the Rachmaninoff example being the only well known inversion.My technique expands on the basic inversion principle to allow inverted melodies from different source pieces to be combined together, even from different genres of music. It results in a very powerful method of creating new ideas. So far I've applied the technique successfully to creating modern piano music, but it should be suitable for composing music in any genre or style. I've written a full guide to the technique in four parts: The technique, part 1 (inversion) The technique, part 2 (synthesis) The technique, part 3 (retrograde inversion) The technique, part 4 (advanced inversion & composition) I welcome your comments and look forward to hearing your results using the technique! Also, to get some idea of how I've applied the technique, have a listen to the opening piece " " from my debut album released in 2009.Chris
  17. Our school follows the AQA board and out unit two compulsory topic is popular song. I'm completely lost. I have finished the first draft but needs to be a million times better. Has anyone composed a pop piece with sheet music so I can look at the style and the common layout and characteristics of each instrument? Also has anyone done GCSE or A level music and got an A/A* with a pop composition if so could I see sheet music and hopefully take some ideas to improve my own. Any help ASAP greatly appreciated :)
  18. Hey all, So I'm on my last year or so of undergrad school, and that means that I'll be going through the the senior courses (no more 4 hour classes!), revamping resumes, my portfolio and expanding my internet presence. I'll also be proposing my (50's suspense music here) SENIOR PROJECT! In all seriousness though, i'm really excited! I've been looking forward to getting out there and starting to work with people in the real world. But enough of my ranting, time to present you guys with my proposal for my senior project! - A working VSI with the intent on it being useable in real world mock - ups. But before I really get my hands dirty: I wanted to hear from you guys and get the YC community involved with this project. I think this would be a really cool project to hear from other people and really to network with all of you guys; many of us will be working in the same industry more or less (some of us are already making their name out there) and it would be great to get feedback from peers in the composition community. I don't expect this to be the next cinesamples, but I do intend on getting to know those guys and other companies that create this software and be able to create my own custom instrument libraries in the future. Basically I wanna know: What UI options do you think are "essential" to make a user - friendly patch? What other software instrument would you like to see come out? What are some problems that you have sometimes with VSI's? Anything else that comes to mind :) The short version of my proposal is that I'm going to make a sort of "Scary String" library using some common effects used in commercial orchestral music and some extended string articulations. If you're interested in reading more, I've opened up my Prezi presentation online, the link is below. http://prezi.com/vjt...oject-proposal/ I look forward to hearing from everyone! Happy composing! ~J
  19. Greetings! So heres where I'm having issues. I can come up with a section of music. Might be a big moment, or something that might be good as a middle section that is not a climatic part of the song. I'm having issues developing the material in-between, and struggling with form a bit. Am I over thinking things when it comes to form? Or should I just let the music happen. My gut says yes I'm over thinking things, and I need to let the music happen. I've studied Eric Whitacres October a lot, and he takes simple ideas and makes them into something huge. Any tips for this besides practice practice practice? What is everyone else doing to develop their material? Obviously their are numerous techniques like retrograde, augmentation, diminution, etc.... but is their a specific approach you use when going about it? Thanks!
  20. I found this quite interesting: Chad "Sir Wick" Hughes Aikman b. 1959 Fox b. 1931 Heiden (1910 –2002) Hindemith (1895-1963) Sekles (1872-1934) I.Knorr (1853-1916) Jadassohn (1831-1902) Liszt (1811-1886) Czerny (1791-1857) Beethoven (1770-1827) Neefe (1748-1798) J.A.Hiller (1728-1804) Homilius (1714-1785) J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
  21. I've just released a tool which I hope makes composition more casual and less imposing: http://nullcomposer.com http://www.youtube.c...h?v=OV1ekV-QMT8 Do you think the anonymous/collective angle brings anything to making music? It works great for stuff like wikipedia, link posting (reddit), photoshop contests etc. With NC it's super easy remix anyone else's work and repost, plus the anonymity means no one's afraid of making mistakes. At any rate I figured you here at YC would dig it the most, so enjoy. - Justin.
  22. Hi all, Here there are a number of good books on counterpoint. http://cantati.com/resources/index.html
  23. matriculate: To admit or be admitted into a group, especially a college or university There have been posts on which schools, portfolio, length, etc. I will try to organize all that in this particular thread and discuss options from baccalaureate to doctorate although I will lean heavier into masters and doctorate. 1) Picking and preparing for undergrad Three to five compositions are pretty standard. Since I am an alumnus of Michigan, Kansas State and in some time, LSU, I will use first-hand their admission practices as my references. http://www.music.umich.edu/departments/composition/auditions_ug.htm This is pretty straight-forward. They are not expecting the second coming of Beethoven. 2) Picking and preparing for Master's Here is one of Wick's Rules: If a school does not offer a doctorate in your field, the chances of you getting a scholarship drastically increases. If the aforementioned is true, then the chances of getting a scholarship to Juilliard has diminished. So what does one do? I suggest find a school that offers money to MM students. Lee University is a small college in Tennessee that has a wonderful music program. Most of you have never heard of it, but it's phenomenal. Apply there! Does this mean do not apply to the "big boys?" Not necessarily. My goal here as the older one is to put everything into perspective. Many are not familiar with Kansas State University but my matriculation there was great. Great teachers and some good musicians. 3) Picking and preparing for PhD/DMA Clarification: The difference between the two is traditionally, the PhD has a research dissertation to it. This isn't always law. The University of Washington Music Composition DMA has a research component also so the differences aren't always apparent. Here are requirements from the University of Michigan: http://www.music.umich.edu/departments/composition/auditions_rackgrad.htm There are maybe 60-70 (and that may be smaller) schools that offer a terminal Music Composition degree; therefore, the choices of school significantly drops at this level. One could say on average, about two per state. I generally hate to say that because states like NY, Cali, FL and TX have at least four but states like NM, NH, Vermont have none. States like LA, NC, SC, OR, UT have one school in their state. Consequently, that is how the average is about two per state Even with that number, one can still see that there are many schools outside of the NY/NE area that offer terminal degrees in music composition. Why limit yourself? Apply everywhere. The place where you want to go might not give you any money. A school elsewhere might be in love your music and wants you to have their degree. At this level, one really should not pay for school. At this level, one really should not pay for school. At this level, one really should not pay for school!!!! Why? There is too much money out there for you to do that and it's expensive. Now, that doesn't mean you won't have to take out a loan of some sorts; however, tuition-waivers and some form of stipend needs to happen at this level. The second reason is that at this point, you are at your last levels of matriculation and need not worry about going to a second job to pay your bills. Your institution should be preparing you for a job (which is the reason you're getting a terminal degree [for the most]) The reason one works towards the terminal degree is to get a job in academia. Of course, you'll still learn more technique from your teacher. The degree doesn't get you film score opportunities or a recording contract, it gets you a chance at academia. Therefore once again, apply everywhere. This concludes Part I. The next part shall talk about jobs/commissions in music composition! Musically Yours, Chad "Sir Wick" Hughes
  24. Does it pay off? I mean, the composition industry is hard to break in to with or without a degree... Do four years at a music college make much of a difference at all? I originally planned to go to some music school (like Berklee College of Music) but now I'm wondering if it's worth it. I know I will pursue music, but wouldn't it be more logical to pursue it originally and try to get in to the industry a different way? (Instead of a Composition major, I think I might go for computer technology with a minor in music... Would create an interesting career niche.) Any thoughts?
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