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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 ...

Compose music using Rhythm Theory: Beat Division, Accents & Creative Time Feels! Courses, Workshops or Private lessons ...

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 ...

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 I can identify the harmony of a phrase I can reduce it to a skeleton. This will be the basis of my creative work.

What is your total creative output as a composer? Are you composing enough music to uncover the good ideas? Today's video is ...

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

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

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.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

In this MuseScore 4 tutorial, we cover the basics of score writing, including how to enter notes, articulations, and text items.

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