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The 20th century offers composers a wide range of technical opportunities. Anyone wishing to compose in a more simple style ...

First we look at how Wagner made use of the chromatic harmony that we found in Schubert's work. After looking closer at some ...

Sound and Music Computing Conference 2021 (SMC 2021) Session 5 – Systems for Music Generation and Composition Silvia ...

We have seen how harmony became more complicated in the 19th century. In this video we go on to look at jazz harmony in the ...

In this episode, I talk about the basic idea, and why it's such a useful way to start your themes.

This is the most important step in the more advanced stages of composition: writing a song in the style of Schubert, using the ...

This talk continues from the last, expanding the simple arrangement into a piece for unaccompanied choir, first in a homophonic ...

Putting snippets and skeletons together we can use elements of any composition to create new pieces.

This video makes a detailed harmonic analysis of Schubert's song "Schäfers Klagelied," pointing out augmented triads, ...

In this vlog, I show the techniques I talked about in the previous video on sketching. If you're interested in learning to compose, ...

Once you have a few simple progressions under your fingers, you can begin to compose with them. In this video, we use I-IV-I and ...

Once we have understood the principle of parody composition and can handle chromatic harmony we can progress to this more ...

How do melodies work? We separate them into their tiniest fragments, examining phrases and cadences. We look for repeated ...

This last talk shows how Mozart used material by J.C.Bach, whom he admired very much, to compose his first piano concerto.

This is the first talk about arranging, limited to the type of small ensemble that might have been found in the middle ages.

Algorithmic music composing techniques use predefined processes, or algorithms, to generate musical elements and structures, ...

This talk begins with a definition of tonality and then goes on to look at the tonality of folk songs and simple melodies. Children's ...

The ability to harmonise a folk song is an essential step towards original composition. How do we choose which chords are best?

Composing is a lot easier when you can play an instrument proficiently, however, piano is particularly useful for composers.

Three composers will help us to look closer at more complex aspects of music since 1900: Bartók, Hindemith and Messiaen.