This morning after Ausra and I recorded a couple of Secrets of Organ Playing Podcast episodes, we had to leave to go to buy a suitcase for our upcoming trip to perform at Alpe d'Huez in the French Alpes.

In an instrument of resistance under consideration, the initial coin is presented in the construction of their own token of the city. Challenges in the form of this city are all things from immigration

SLIDES (Link to watch video follows these slides): Greetings, Everyone! Welcome to our ongoing exposé on Gradus ad Parnassum, by Johann Fux’. That Latin treatise, published in 1725, is PUBLIC DOMAIN in

We’ll say at the outset that, for most of this first series on “species counterpoint” we will continue to adhere to the broad outline of Fux’ 18th century treatise, Gradus ad Parnassum, published in 1725.

FIRST SPECIES IN TWO PARTS: LOWER COUNTERPOINT (LCP) – Counterpoint as Bass, Finding and Fixing Errors In Gradus ad Parnassum, an important 18th century treatise on counterpoint by Johann Joseph Fux, the

THE COUNTERPOINT GAME – CANTUS FIRMUS, PART 3: BALANCE, MELODIC TENSION, REPETITION, BEGINNING AND ENDING An occasional change in the vertical direction of a cantus firmus creates musical interest, because

The "Counterpoint Game" – Cantus Firmus, Part 2: Tempo, Direction, Conjunct vs. Disjunct, Skips and Leaps As suggested by musicologist Peter Schubert (referenced below), whole notes mark the

This post consists of information and a link to an important series of videos on my educational channel on YouTube, which is mostly about music theory and fundamentals, from a natural acoustic, scientific

Have you ever created a melody based on a proper name, either yours or that of someone you know? Almost everyone has heard the song "Do, Re, Mi" from the Broadway musical/award-winning film The

The previous post included links to PDF and audio files for Interval Progressions (Introduction to Music Composition). You may also be interested in downloading Finale NotePad to try out your own compositions.

The Canon Composition series I started in earlier posts is proving to be too advanced for most users. To remedy this I am starting a new series on more fundamental, prerequisite topics in music composition.

Canon Composition: Lesson 3: The previous two lessons presented the basics but didn't modulate. Here is a whole note sketch of the A and B part for a Theme and Variations (see links below). This was the

This little book on counterpoint is designed to provide beginning composers with a simple introduction to the main techniques of both strict and functional counterpoint. All of my canon composition lessons

This PDF file contains instructions for how to compose canons at other melodic intervals. See the website for more files -- including Finale files.

Here's a PDF file that introduces my "Backward / Forward Method" of canon construction. Musical Canons: Lesson 1 Enjoy! Feel free to download this PDF and ask questions. On my musicarroll website

Hello Fellow Steemians! Just getting ramped up as a new Steemian myself. My intent is to post educational materials on music composition. I have been composing music since the 1970s (yes, I'm THAT old!

Recuerdo cuánto esfuerzo me tomó hacer esto... un minuto de música que valió la pena. ¡Estaré haciendo otra! una a 4 voces, luego les comparto. Si tienen preguntas, ¡adelante!. La escuela de composición

An original piece of music in a medieval style. Let me know your thoughts. Thanks!