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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

What are harmonic inversions? If you're not using them, you run the risk of writing very boring progressions and pieces. But they ...

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

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

La Follia was a popular tune in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, which lends itself to improvisation. The only rule is that ...

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

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

One of the most exciting challenges facing the composer is the opportunity to set a poem to music and create a song. This talk ...

Watch me compose a functional chord progression. This is a corrected version of the original episode. I took the music out that ...

In case you didn't notice, I'm making a new video series :D You will be able to watch my creative process when writing music in ...

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

A brief introduction to the art of reading orchestral scores at the piano. Additional material on clefs and transposing instruments is ...