Based on only your past works

Based on just past works that you have written what genres do you tend to write in?

Is that genre what you wanted write in or do you have plans on trying other genres?

If so which ones?

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Music genre or style of writing....

like Minimalism, Serialism, neo-classical, Atonality, ect

What do you mean by genre?

Yeah, please clarify your statement.

Based on just past works that you have written what genres do you tend to write in?

Is that genre what you wanted write in or do you have plans on trying other genres?

If so which ones?

Music genre or style of writing....

like Minimalism, Serialism, neo-classical, Atonality, ect

Music genre or style of writing....

like Minimalism, Serialism, neo-classical, Atonality, ect

Minimalism and seralism are more techniques than anything. And there's plenty of neo-classical music that can be described as atonal. I can speak of my main influences, them being Corigliano, John Adams, Schwantner, among other things.Those 3 are pretty drastically different from each other however.

rock/pop

film music (computer game music rather)

contemporary, not atonal or serial but... well... my own style...

theatre music

If we're going on my past works then... nothing :huh:

Jazz....whatever that means...

Neo-classical, neo-romantic, absurdist, and a smidgeon of serialist.

I was just thinking it would be rather hard to base it on music I HAVEN'T written yet, which would be my "future works"... so I guess it's obligatorily "based on only your past works".

;)

I have no idea how to categorize my music. And why should I bother? Others surely will do it for me. I write "my" music.

Those who are into "period" music will find my music hard to understand and too "modern" (whatever that means), and those who are into avantgarde music will scoff at my "primitive" music and say I'm a dinosaur throw-back living in another time.

So, which definition should I choose?

I write music that expresses what I need to express.

I was just thinking it would be rather hard to base it on music I HAVEN'T written yet, which would be my "future works"... so I guess it's obligatorily "based on only your past works".

;)

I have no idea how to categorize my music. And why should I bother? Others surely will do it for me. I write "my" music.

Those who are into "period" music will find my music hard to understand and too "modern" (whatever that means), and those who are into avantgarde music will scoff at my "primitive" music and say I'm a dinosaur throw-back living in another time.

So, which definition should I choose?

I write music that expresses what I need to express.

That pretty much sums it up

Me? Less modern and avant-garde, more neo-classical, neo-romantic, new age piano, band-like stuff (brass band, concert band), umm... jazz/blues/funk, a mixture thereof. And a smidget of techno... :huh:

I've tried my hand at atonal, I just can't get it to work. I'm stuck in the tonal dimension of music.

Stuff in the style of Haydn, (maybe) Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Strauss (Richard)... just slightly, but those of the more popular of the composers that I've come close to sounding like in some of my past pieces, I probably sound more like some unknown composers that sorta sounded like them in turn. :happy:

Maybe a touch of minimalism, but not really based on my compositions so far.

And random, I've inhabited that style from time to time.

Good question.

Tonal, but I lean towards modality in nearly all of my compositions. Elements of jazz creep in sometimes. Minimalist and sometimes unconventional (though never atonal) harmonies seem to crop up a fair amount. Also folky gestures like quick grace notes and folky sounding mordents are things I use a lot of.

As I said in another thread I'll post my string quartet when I've finished it (hopefully in the next couple of weeks) and you'll see what I mean.