Composing with Constraints - Variego

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Auteur(s) : Variego

Editeur : Academic

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/11/2021

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 144

ISBN : 0190057238

Résumé :
Composing with Constraints provides an innovative approach to the instruction of the craft of music composition based on tailored exercises to help students develop their creativity. The 1 exercises that are included contain a unique set of guidelines and constraints intended to place the student in a specific compositional framework. By using the methodologies in this book, students will be able to create their own outlines for their compositions, making intelligent and educated compositional choices that balance reasoning with intuition....

Biographie:
1:1, 1:2, 1:3 and others combined

Texture 74 - same chord, different color (orchestration)

Texture 75 - the magic of the unison and timbral modulation

Texture 76 - volume of orchestration

Texture 77 - text painting, representing text with sounds

Texture 78 - heterophony

Texture 79 - using stratified layers alla Ives

Texture 80 - sound masses

Chapter V - Form (exercises 81 - 90)

Form 81 - planning contrast

Form 82 - composing with modules

Form 83 - the one-way-trip composition, developing variations

Form 84 - theme and variations

Form 85 - spinning around A, rondo?

Form 86 - form as process, minimalism

Form 87 - palindromic structures

Form 88 - available forms alla Brown

Form 89 - monolithic structures

Form 90 - game pieces

Chapter VI - Pre-compositional strategies (exercises 91 - 100)

Starting a new composition. Challenges and possible solutions.

Strategies.

Formal plans.

Using matrices.

Analysis and stylistic imitation.

Improvisation.

Soundscapes and nature.

Using the computer as assistant.

Pre-composition 91 - writing a compositional recipe

Pre-composition 92 - using a matrix

Pre-composition 93 - deconstructing and reconstructing I

Pre-composition 94 - deconstructing and reconstructing II

Pre-composition 95 - transcribing your own improvisations

Pre-composition 96 - bringing ideas from other worlds to your music

Pre-composition 97 - quotations as triggers

Pre-composition 98 - drawing sketches

Pre-composition 99 - oblique strategies by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt

Pre-composition 100 - the computer as assistant

Appendix

A) Grading rubric

B) Sample curriculums for group composition classes or individual lessons

C) Select anthology of scales and musical examples

D) Table of instrument ranges and transpositions

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Sommaire:

• Introduction


• How to use the book


• Recommendations for the instructor


• Chapter I - Melody (exercises 1 - 20)


• Preliminary notes


• Melody 1 - focal point


• Melody 2 - using your own scale


• Melody 3 - using your own scale and a subset


• Melody 4 - using your own scale with a substitute pitch


• Melody 5 - a scale in a given order


• Melody 6 - a scale in a given order with ordered rhythm


• Melody 7 - concatenating triads


• Melody 8 - concatenating triads of any type


• Melody 9 - segments of equal duration


• Melody 10 - segments of unequal duration


• Melody 11 - the melody of an image


• Melody 12 - integer notation


• Melody 13 - integer notation collections and subsets


• Melody 14 - integer notation collections and transition subsets


• Melody 15 - simple probabilities


• Melody 16 - a twelve-tone row


• Melody 17 - a twelve-tone row in palindrome


• Melody 18 - intervallic content


• Melody 19 - leitmotifs


• Melody 20 - eliminations


• Chapter II - Harmony (exercises 21 - 40)


• Preliminary notes


• Harmony 21 - composing transitions


• Harmony 22 - using segments, melody becomes harmony


• Harmony 23 - axis of symmetry Harmony 24 - using the harmonic series


• Harmony 25 - using the harmonic series with a pedal tone


• Harmony 26 - just triads


• Harmony 27 - using integer notation


• Harmony 28 - diatonic?


• Harmony 29 - a twelve-tone row


• Harmony 30 - alla circle progression


• Harmony 31 - triads that move in thirds


• Harmony 32 - triads that move in thirds and progressions within a progression


• Harmony 33 - polychords, triads over triads


• Harmony 34 - polytonality


• Harmony 35 - pedal tones


• Harmony 36 - ideas using parallel modes


• Harmony 37 - clusters


• Harmony 38 - sequences and patterns


• Harmony 39 - implied harmonies


• Harmony 40 - contrafacts


• Chapter III - Rhythm (exercises 41 - 60)


• Preliminary notes


• Rhythm 41 - transformations using simple math


• Rhythm 42 - using segments


• Rhythm 43 - using segments per measure


• Rhythm 44 - non-retrogradable rhythms


• Rhythm 45 - patterns within patterns


• Rhythm 46 - extracting the rhythm of a text


• Rhythm 47 - why meter?


• Rhythm 48 - short, long, long, short - using Morse code


• Rhythm 49 - ostinato


• Rhythm 50 - playing with hemiolas


• Rhythm 51 - hemiolas and melodic construction


• Rhythm 52 - polymeter


• Rhythm 53 - metric modulations


• Rhythm 54 - using rhythmic motifs


• Rhythm 55 - motivic displacement


• Rhythm 56 - isorhythmic motets, talea and color


• Rhythm 57 - repeat signs, loops and internal spiraling


• Rhythm 58 - composing with unequal rests and pauses


• Rhythm 59 - eliminations, everything coming from the same tune


• Rhythm 60 - perceivable and non-perceivable pulse


• Chapter IV - Texture (exercises 61 - 80)


• Preliminary notes


• Texture 61 - analyzing Chopin


• Texture 62 - homorrythmic


• Texture 63 - leitmotifs


• Texture 64 - all the same but different


• Texture 65 - phasing

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