Archive for February, 2009

From Tedb0t: Found this fascinating blog post about Stravinsky and his controversial comment: http://theoryofmusic.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/stravinsky-on-expression-in-music/


using reason

03Feb09

here is a little youtube demo on how to get started using Reason for those of you interested in working with it to create your pieces.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OADBlQKqPzU   there should be a few computers in the AV lab with reason installed.


Messiaen

01Feb09

here are some good online articles regarding Olivier Messiaen’s use of rhythm.  Pay close attention to the idea of “non-retrogradable” rhythms, (rhythms that are perfectly symmetrical…palindromes….e.g. (2+3+5+3+2) and added values.    http://oliviermessiaen.net/musical-language/rhythmic-language



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