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Morning Mood Analysis: How Grieg Turns One Idea into Endless Music
Morning Mood Analysis: How Grieg Turns One Idea into Endless Music A Composer’s Guide to Morning Mood Analysis Edvard Grieg’s…
How to Orchestrate a Melody: The Six Essential Approaches
O Little Town of Bethlehem: A Musical Analysis
Les Biches (RM25-6) – Francis Poulenc
Musical Moments is a new series where I focus on larger works—whether in orchestration, length, or complexity—and zoom in on…
How to Write Fourth Species Counterpoint: A Comprehensive Guide
Fourth Species Counterpoint is a type of music composition that focuses on creating counterpoint through suspension and syncopation, which means…
Starting to Compose With Counterpoint: Guide to Writing Combined 1st and 2nd Species Counterpoints
Combining 1st and 2nd species counterpoint is where we truly start to unlock counterpoint’s potential as a tool for enhancing…
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“Walking Distance” (The Twilight Zone: S1, E5) – Bernard Herrmann – Part 2 – Composition Technique
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – Paul Dukas (Music Composition Techniques Analysis)
Bizet’s Farandole (L’Arlesienne No.2): music composition techniques
5 ways of Understanding woodwinds
Anatomy of the Orchestra by Norman Del Mar (Book Review)
Creativity and Art (Book Recommendation)
Walking Distance (The Twilight zone: S1, E5) – Bernard Herrmann – Part 1: Instrumentation & Orchestration
Sogno di Volare – Music Composition Techniques
Fawkes the Phoenix – John Williams (Music Composition Analysis – Arrangement, melody and melodic development)
The Art of Composing for String Quartet: A Guide for Beginners
Overcoming Writer’s Block: an Essay
Mozart’s E-Minor Violin Sonata, K. 304: music composition techniques
Badinerie (Orchestral Suite No. 2 – B-Minor) – J. S. Bach – Composition Technique
Les Biches (RM25-6) – Francis Poulenc
Creativity in Context (Teresa Amabile)
Nocturne No. 19 in E-Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (Analysis) – Friederich Chopin
Arabesque No. 1 – Claude Debussy (Music Composition Analysis)
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus (Bitesize Orchestration Analysis)
Morning Mood Analysis: How Grieg Turns One Idea into Endless Music
How to Write Third Species Counterpoint: A Comprehensive Guide
How to Write Second Species Counterpoint: A Comprehensive Guide
Nocturne No. 20 in C-sharp Minor, F. Chopin – Composition Analysis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – K. 304, K. 448 & k. 550: varying repetitions – bitesize Composition analysis
The Flag Parade – Music Composition Techniques
Dives and Lazarus (RVW) – String Orchestration
Spiegel im Spiegel – Arvo Pärt
How to Write First Species Counterpoint: A Comprehensive Guide
Nocturne from Scénes de la Fôret – Mélanie Bonis
Starting to Compose With Counterpoint: Guide to Writing Combined 1st and 2nd Species Counterpoints
How can you use Tintinnabuli to compose your own music?
Arvo Pärt – Für Alina (Bitesize Music Composition Analysis)
Introduction and Allegro for Strings (Edward Elgar) – String Orchestration
J. S. Bach – Badinerie (Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B-minor) (Bitesize Composition Analysis)
How to Orchestrate a Melody: The Six Essential Approaches
Salut D’amour – Edward Elgar (Music Composition Technique Analysis)
Making Mozart Scary
Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne No. 1 Op. 9 – Developing Melody – Bitesize Composition Analysis
Orchestrating a Swashbuckler: The Wreckers Overture (Ethel Smyth)
Learning from John Williams – Recomposing Flag Parade
How to repeat melodies without them getting boring… [Video]
Troika from Lieutenant Kijé (suite) (1934) – Sergei Prokofiev
5 Music Books I would Take into Exile
Für Alina – Composition Techniques
Bernard Herrmann “The Merry-go-round” from “Walking Distance” (Bitesize Music Composition Analysis)
How to Write Fourth Species Counterpoint: A Comprehensive Guide
“How do I orchestrate a piece of music?” (5-tips.)
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Bernard Herrmann – Orchestration Technique
Gilderoy Lockhart – John Williams (Impromptu Melodic Analysis)
This is Berk – How To Train Your Dragon (Dreamworks) – John Powell (Music Analysis – Composition Technique)
O Little Town of Bethlehem: A Musical Analysis
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