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The Technique of Musical Inspiration (Preview)
Because Patreon limited the video I upload a second part . The second part is paid. This is a very original idea of mine.
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Open Conclusive Cadence (“The Radar Train” , Medal of Honor ST)
When I speak about mastering the art of cadence I am not speaking about simply writing a “schoolbook cadence” but about understanding the principles of musical conclusions and clear statements of a musical thought. Observe how well M. Giaccino does finish this movement of Medal of Honor (The Radar Train). This cadence is at the…
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The Technique of Musical Inspiration (Full Video)
A hard part in musical composition, but the hardest in improvisation, is to “improvise a valuable musical insight”. I approached here one keys element that answers the question: can inspiration be a technique?
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The Chord of 13th in the Early Classic Period
The dominant 13th as a typical use for the cadence later in romantism was already to be found in Mozart, and perhaps Bach. This example of Mozart gives a context in which this chord was likely to be used: However the example of Carl Stamitz shows the 13th dominant chord in the earliest point of…
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Coaching for Self-Taught Composers
Buying this post I offer one comprehensive meeting for this month where we set some tasks to do + one recorded video with feedback for many exercises and music that you bring and I analyze before I do the video.
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Philosophy of Music: on the autonomy of the sound
I studied this book in depth and anger in the sixth and last seminar for music theory with Dr. Cristian Ofenbauer at Mozarteum. It handles very important problems, but in an obscure manner. At that time I was philosophically sharper and perhaps not seduced by marxism and revolutionary thinking anymore. Basically it is a pro-Kant…
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Using Groups for Arrangement Presets
Emanuel Fróes is price-winner composer (in field electro-acoustic composition), organist in some of the most important Churches in Vienna and music theorist with degree from Mozarteum University. He teaches several disciplines related to musical composition at a prestiged conservatory in Vienna. Emanuel is also a professional academic philosopher with wide ecletic understand of music, psychology…
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Descending Intervals
Descending intervals are often times harder to sing. A good way to learn them is to play on piano the ascending interval and repeat the same intervals in the inverted direction, but singing it without the piano. Exactly this exercise is what I verified to be very effective teaching a singer recently .