Composition

Melanie Bonis painting cutout sits in front of a full moon that is obscured by the branches of a tree.

Nocturne from Scénes de la Fôret – Mélanie Bonis

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RYl4GcKe5Y&ab_channel=AnyOldMusic Today, I thought we’d take a look at a piece that captured my eye, because it was recently uploaded by Cmaj7 as a score video, to YouTube, and score, to IMSLP. The piece is the opening Nocturne movement from Scènes de la Fôret (Forest Scenes) by French composer, Mélanie Bonis.  A composer with a

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Sergei Prokofiev looks towards as three horses pull a sleigh across a snowy backdrop.

Troika from Lieutenant Kijé (suite) (1934) – Sergei Prokofiev

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Late in 1932, Sergei Prokofiev was approached by the Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad) based film studio Belgoskino Studios and commissioned to score their upcoming film Lieutenant Kijé. To be produced and released in 1933, it came at a time where Prokofiev, who lived in Paris and had been away from his native country for nearly a

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Johann Sebastien Bach looks towards us as an unidentified superhero, somewhat like superman, tears off his suit.

J. S. Bach – Badinerie (Orchestral Suite No. 2 in B-minor) (Bitesize Composition Analysis)

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A nifty way in which Bach modulates, particularly from a minor to a major mode, is by simply pivoting around the tonic of the previous minor key. In the final movement “Badinerie”, of his Orchestral Suite No. 3, for instance, he will often give the tonic chord a cape, turning it into a super-tonic chord

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This is Berk – How To Train Your Dragon (Dreamworks) – John Powell (Music Analysis – Composition Technique)

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https://youtu.be/2Rtlqm0nSU4 If someone were to ask me what my favourite film was, I think I would be hard-pressed to answer with something other than 2010’s How to Train Your Dragon. The reasoning is vast should reason be required for doing something like declaring a favourite film. However, in one sense, my choice boils down to how

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Arvo Pärt embraces contemplation amidst a mosaic sky.

Arvo Pärt – Für Alina (Bitesize Music Composition Analysis)

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In their 1976 composition, Für Alina, for solo piano, Arvo Pärt introduced the world to his algorithmic technique, tintinnabuli. At first glance, the technique’s use in Für Alina looks similar to a two-part first-species counterpoint exercise. On closer inspection, however, one can see the two voices move in similar or oblique motion. Using two types

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