Form in Music Essay
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On SOLO FOR DUET
…other hand, it comes out of how I play. Michael Snow’s unusual compositional process results in a remarkable piano piece. The musical score is in free proportional notation written independently…
Caroline Shaw, musician.
…a litany of quite different complications, albeit complications of their own devising. For composers, notation prevents so much, but it allows so much more. It can be amazingly, exactingly precise…
Looking back at Orpheus
…No More, where the audience would choose where they wanted to go. That was when I started to tell the composers, “Hey, people might come into your room and they…
Slack: An Essay Around Some Canadian Music
…in its general rejection of complex relationships to complex cultural histories (simple loyalty to the Crown lacks substantial depth). Anecdotally, after completing my undergrad training in Edmonton, I studied for…
A Compendium of Ideas About Form in Music
…of musical phrase in a composition. It is one of the more elusive attributes of composition. (Andrew Staniland) For some composers, a formal structure can be predefined; many more will attempt…
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Jocelyn Morlock
…the mythologies that have developed around them. And like several of the key women composers of the past century (Meredith Monk and Sofia Gubaidulina immediately come to mind), Morlock infuses…
Don’t get too comfortable
…musically. Those are basically two different things. However, since I was a composer, I did find some ways where you have a funny kind of combination. The other side of…