Music Composition 101 (Art of Composing)

I need your support. Learning music composition is a lifetime endeavor. There are plenty of music theory books abound, but when it comes to actually learning the craft, there is a strange silence. After hundreds of years of systematic teaching from all over the world, there is still relatively little on how to learn music composition. I am here to change that. I am here to help you not waste time.

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I don't consider myself a master of music composition, but I am working towards it. And I hope part of the reason my website, artofcomposing.

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So without further ado, let's get on with the featured content. Featured Content Mastery is a subject not often touched on or talked about in modern society. If you think about it, most things in life are really designed to prevent you from mastering a subject. No I believe its school. School is designed, from the beginning, to be a place of conformity and regurgitation.

You are forced through your most creative, and curious part of your life to listen to teachers talk about subjects you just don't care about. And then after the day is done, you have to go home and study those same subjects, and do your homework. This all leads to a lack of motivation on the part of children to care much about school. For me personally, this lead to a habit of procrastinating. You see, procrastination really has nothing to do with you being lazy. I was and I still am, a hard worker. The thing is, I just never wanted to work on what I had to work on. Homework, diaramas, reports, papers, whatever.

This is a great interview where we go into all sorts of What is in this episode: He is author of two of my favorite books, Classical Form: An Approach For the Classroom. There is an issue with my itunes feed right now. I am working with apple to get it fixed, but it will probably be a day or two before it's corrected. This includes the study of harmony, counterpoint, and analysis, as well as your instrument.

What are characteristics of good Orchestration? Transparency Let the orchestra choirs sound so that it doesn't all sound like a big mish-mosh. Thoughts on Hindemith You had to write a new piece for every single lesson. He would then rewrite it. You ended up writing what he would like. I wrote like a little Paul Hindemith for a very long time.

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Thoughts on Copland He was the best teacher because he would point out there was something wrong with your piece, but he wouldn't tell you exactly what. He would show you - identify some kind of weakness, or mistake, or wrong chord, or something like that. And instead of, like Hindemith putting the right chord, he would say, "Go home and do it. He said "Somethings wrong," so something must be wrong, and you tried very hard to correct it. And this was a terrific way of teaching. On teaching in General The composition teacher is like a midwife.

He can't have the baby but he can help along. Always try to live into the music or style that the student is writing. Samuel Adler's Thoughts on Technology I can tell, by looking at a score, whether that composer has composed with the computer. You have delete on the computer and you have repeat on the computer, and much of the minimal music is not as good as Philip Glass, or any of the great composers of minimal music. Samuel Adler's Process of Composing He starts with sketching. He always completes his short score before orchestrating.

Orchestration is treated as a 2nd composition.

Why he wrote The Study of Orchestration He wrote the book by default, because the books they were using didn't actually talk about orchestration - just instrumen We talk about Partimenti, the tool used to train the greatest composers from Mozart to Debussy and Stravinsky, as well as his new research into how music fits really well into constructionist linguistic theory. In this episode, you'll get a good grasp of what harmony is and why harmony works the way it does. If you've ever wanted to know how to create a chord progression from scratch, this is the episode for you.

Here are the charts mentioned in the episode. If you're interested more in using these charts, you can check out my article on diatonic harmony. OwlTail only owns the podcast episode rankings. Copyright of underlying podcast content is owned by the publisher, not OwlTail. Audio is streamed directly from Jon Brantingham: Composer and Music Composition Teacher servers. Downloads goes directly to publisher.