Today at composition workshop, we learned about Paul-stretch, Compositional Behaviours and Strategies of Composition.
The first thing we tackled in composition workshop, was the interesting little tool called Paul-Stretch. Apparently this is good for slowly music down; the example provided was of a piece/website called Beetstretch.com, this is a website where Beethoven's "9th Symphony" has been "Paul-stretched" down to a 24-hour version of the piece!
One of the honours student's gave a speech about his recent course of study. He worked for the previous year at UWA, where he did an honours paper on "Compositional Behaviours: A Case Study of Tertiary Composition Students". While conducting this study he found out that there was your stereotypical composer ie introverted and very musically focused, but there was also many varying different types of composers. As a way to streamline the study he created a questionnaire of 35 questions, which would be the evidence he would base his research on. After a successful year of comprehensive study, he was pleased with the results but felt as though it needed to be conducted on a larger scale completely validate it.
Strategies of Composition was a subject discussed by Susan Kosowitz. 3 main steps she divulged to the class where plan, prepare and practice.
Planning was about ; type of composition, deadlines, duration, instrumentation and concept. Preparing leant itself to; researching composition styles, analysing your scores, any gaps in your knowledge and has someone done a similar composition.
The art of practice came down to, writing whatever comes into your head as an output and as a form of practice, which you can revisit later. "Write 2 bars a day"- Nadia Boulanger.
Lastly she spoke about the practicality of what you are writing, depending on the instruments range and or physical limitations ie oxygen.
One of the honours student's gave a speech about his recent course of study. He worked for the previous year at UWA, where he did an honours paper on "Compositional Behaviours: A Case Study of Tertiary Composition Students". While conducting this study he found out that there was your stereotypical composer ie introverted and very musically focused, but there was also many varying different types of composers. As a way to streamline the study he created a questionnaire of 35 questions, which would be the evidence he would base his research on. After a successful year of comprehensive study, he was pleased with the results but felt as though it needed to be conducted on a larger scale completely validate it.
Strategies of Composition was a subject discussed by Susan Kosowitz. 3 main steps she divulged to the class where plan, prepare and practice.
Planning was about ; type of composition, deadlines, duration, instrumentation and concept. Preparing leant itself to; researching composition styles, analysing your scores, any gaps in your knowledge and has someone done a similar composition.
The art of practice came down to, writing whatever comes into your head as an output and as a form of practice, which you can revisit later. "Write 2 bars a day"- Nadia Boulanger.
Lastly she spoke about the practicality of what you are writing, depending on the instruments range and or physical limitations ie oxygen.