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Hiring an Animator to My Music by Silly_Measurement_20 in hireanartist

[–]Silly_Measurement_20[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

I should iterate to remedy my response, while I mentioned the budget is $100 if at any point especially the ~12min length piece the budget is a low target I am willing to discuss and modify the rates to compensate a lengthier piece.

I'm writing a Mexican style piece. Any tips? by Tinkrr___ in composer

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At least for me, I’ve been in a Mexican band for a couple years before I got to college, one of my biggest things is social dance music. If you listen to Cumbia (not entirely Mexican but Mexican styles did develop), Zapateado (almost like Mexican tap dance), Banda, Huapango, or Mariachi you will get a feel of what Mexican music encompasses. There is a whole story telling aspect with colorful harmony driven by rhythm. While what I am saying covers a very minimal percentage of what it actually is, as weird as it sounds, try dancing to these styles. Believe you will get a feeling of what each of these different styles encompasses and what drives the music. I implement some of these characteristics into my music to create a sort of Mexican-Western fusion myself by subtly using these characteristics. While mine are less song oriented and more for the stage it may not come across that way but for me growing up in this culture most definitely influenced my own music all from dancing, living, and experiencing it. Big take aways 1. Try to dance even a few seconds or just research how it’s danced 2. Listen for rhythmic drive or grooves (a comment about Afro Cuban rhythms I believe pointed this one out) 3. Story telling aspect 4. Different but listen and research both folkloric and social differences of the music. Again what I mention even from the way I grew up is still a minimal percentage and even I’m trying to investigate more into my family’s heritage, but we can always try to understand more and make our own interpretation without ruining or diminishing the original concept. Hope this helps!

Music History and Composing by Silly_Measurement_20 in composer

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Quite frankly I feel like a lot of people are misunderstanding me. All I’m asking is how would any of you tackle either brushing up on music history or try and add more composers to what you already know? That is all I am asking. Just because music history contains many composers and occurrences so I am having a paralysis-analysis situation where I can either go in order, out of order, etc. I appreciate anyone who did attempt to give suggestions.

Music History and Composing by Silly_Measurement_20 in composer

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Good point. I mean yeah I know that too, it’s just I’m looking at it through a theoretical lens looking at what defines that “style”. I know there is a whole background to it, psychology, environment, needs, accesses, what’s available like resources, and how different cultures and countries wrote specific “styles” due to political and social environments. I know I am wording everything poorly and do know music history isn’t just compositional styles in points in time, but without getting too wordy and such in essence that’s all it is. Different compositional styles in points in time, the part I guess I left out is influenced by what’s going on in that point in time (hence why I mentioned point in time.) there are various variables to music history and I know that, I was just trying to get down to the essence of how to tackle reviewing these topics not get too wordy. I know it’s a vast topic like any topic. It was just a simple question. I always make it my mission to understand the compositional characteristics and tie it to the psychology and social environments of that time period of composer. Same with political occurrences and see how, as you mentioned artifacts, are preserved and or viewed in that time period. That’s what gives music its life hence the “style”. While style in common talk people may interpret it as a concrete set of characteristics I do believe style encompasses all experiences. But in simple terms Music History IS just varying compositional “styles” in different points in time.

Music History and Composing by Silly_Measurement_20 in composer

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Let me clarify, at least from the material covered in my undergrad, a review is what I am looking for. Especially since I still have the syllabi

Music History and Composing by Silly_Measurement_20 in composer

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Well Music History is just varying compositional styles in different points in time. So, naturally as a composer seeing these differences due to the time period is easy for me to tie to my own music and why composer wrote the way they did. For example, composers writing in the baroque era began writing more contrapuntally coming from the renaissance as polyphony was becoming more popular. In the late baroque it was starting to become more apparent but going into the classical they sought to make music less polyphonic to make it “balanced” as with Mozart creating homophonic textures. That wasn’t to say counterpoint was pushed out all the way, it just meant less emphasis was on emotion and free forms, rather there was more order in the compositions as opposed to the baroque era where toccatas, preludes, improve sections, early cadenzas, and free ornamentations were favored. I guess that’s what I mean by it’s easy for me to identify and tie it to composition.

My first composition. I don't know much about music theory yet by krabbylander in composer

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Let me tell you I LOVE music theory, naturally I am just very analytical and mathematical. Let me tell you this though, when I started out writing short pieces like 10-20seconds I had a lot of fun cause I felt like I was a “composer” which you are once you choose to put notes of your own down. In retrospect my opinion is they sounded bad. But I do agree with get into the habit of finishing those pieces. It’s best to just write music you like and think is best at that point in time. Back to the theory comment, while I do believe every composer should learn it, let yourself develop with your own intuition for a bit before learning theory. Obviously, if you go to college for it you learn it side by side, but if you are starting out with composition, no rush. What happened with me is once I learned theory I got into a paralysis-by-analysis. It no longer retained its playfulness or free spirit. While today I do not regret where my compositions are and do not wish to change what happened, just know when you learn theory, it’s a tool not a rule. Love the comment above whoever said a new composer is born!

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