Today we had a visit from composer Yitzhak Yedid and I was lucky enough to get some feedback on a short compositional exercise.
Yitzhak gave us a sheet to write 3 bar dot notation ideas on where he had written the first 4 bars for us to base our ideas on. I managed to miss out on the parameters in which we were supposed to work and began writing it at a level were I could sight read it on piano. He then began to play us examples of his musical compositions which were astoundingly good and distracting from the task I was undertaking.
Yitzhak spoke about developing ideas in a way that aren't disconnected - break up an idea over a number of phrases to eliminate disinterest.
A peice was played to us written for piano and a string quartet. In this piece he had written the strings to play out of pitch, this added very harmonically interesting ideas. When writing for specific players/ yourself Yitzhak mentioned that working to the strengths of the musician/s can help ease the performance aspect.
Harp Solo- Out to Infinity. This is a piece Yitzhak wrote for solo harp. In this piece he named the sections - corresponding to moods they instigated - to ease the learning process by creating mood responses to the sections.
Lastly an interesting topic talked about was the use of 2 hands for playing small intervals - this offers a different style of articulation between notes - this was something I hope to use in the future.
Yitzhak spoke about developing ideas in a way that aren't disconnected - break up an idea over a number of phrases to eliminate disinterest.
A peice was played to us written for piano and a string quartet. In this piece he had written the strings to play out of pitch, this added very harmonically interesting ideas. When writing for specific players/ yourself Yitzhak mentioned that working to the strengths of the musician/s can help ease the performance aspect.
Harp Solo- Out to Infinity. This is a piece Yitzhak wrote for solo harp. In this piece he named the sections - corresponding to moods they instigated - to ease the learning process by creating mood responses to the sections.
Lastly an interesting topic talked about was the use of 2 hands for playing small intervals - this offers a different style of articulation between notes - this was something I hope to use in the future.