Could anyone rec me some beginner textbooks on composition? I'm working on improving my ear and I want to start working on music composition over the summer. I've got Schoenberg's Fundamentals of Musical composition but it seems pretty heavy for me, I really know no music theory. What is some super entry level textbooks?
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Christopher Cook
The thing is, the only way you will learn how to compose music is by practising it. Textbooks on composition don't teach you how to write music, they teach you the heuristics discovered / invented and used by previous composers. You can learn their tricks just as well by simply imitating them. (Although I guess it depends on the way you learn things in general. Having the heuristic explained to you can certainly help.) The fact that you're doing ear training is very good. Transcription skills are a composer's bread and butter.
For a relatively comprehensive introduction in basic music theory try Hindemith's "Elementary Training for Musicians". Look it up on gen.lib.rus.ec and get your version of choice.
Jace Williams
>gif of someone doing food service because that's what you'll be doing if you decide to be a composer
Sebastian Rogers
You should never kill someone else's dream even when it's likely they're not up to it. It's better to give them enough rope so that they can hang it themselves instead.
Adam Bell
>Petzold
yes
Joshua Green
being a composer is awesome. just sucks that you literally can't make money from it.
Ian Wright
shit sounds so cool when a voice plays a short melody then holds a note while a different voice repeats the melody
>The Hammerklavier was deemed to be Beethoven's most difficult sonata yet. In fact, it was considered unplayable until almost 15 years later, when Liszt played it in a concert.
Psssh nothing personal kid.
Mason Taylor
Reply to this post with the greatest classical piece of you've ever heard
Bernard's pretty funny, but also kind of questionable, and he mostly sticks to very subjective and esoteric (as you say) descriptors for performances. A lot of which don't really mean anything to me anymore. I used to read him all the time and he was the one who introduced me to most of the Knappertsbusch recordings I own. My tastes have changed greatly since then.
I think of Bernard as more of an entertainer than a reviewer that I would go to for a top recommendation. He has a decent chunk of reviews which border on trolling.
Speaking of Amazon reviewers, Discophage is pretty good. A bit verbose, perhaps, but also extremely informative and he directly references the score and numerous other recordings for comparison. Pretty agreeable taste.
I used to read Ralph Moore too, but I got tired of his Pristine shilling. Makes me wonder if his ears are just for show.
Cameron Bailey
You guys will probably bully me for this but could you point me towards anything that sounds like this?
>not giving theory, solfage, melody, harmony, counterpoint and composition lessons to kids in order to keep composing >not producing in this way 50 new composers who will have to find 50 kids to teach to in order to keep composing
Nicholas Bailey
Disgusting. The only waifu for Liszt is Chopin
Cameron Lopez
>no young Liszt x shota Brahms
Levi King
your impression is accurate reviewers have always benn shills
William Brooks
You again? That's the first not half-bad song you inquired about these two days. Try English coral music. There's centuries worth available, but dive in wherever. I think that's what you were looking for all along.
What will you be listening to this passiontide /classical/? I rather like it, particularly Melisande's death. Nothing groundbreaking, but it's enjoyable music.
Luke Thompson
>you literally can't make money from it. You literally can. If you're good.
Noah Bell
Sibelius has to be the most boring composer ever existed
The earliest one is "Il mondo della luna" by Baldassare Galuppi. Haydn also set the same libretto to music (Hob. 28/7).
Michael Roberts
My life is an eternal minor chord that will never fade out.
Hunter Jones
The best one if you want a pronounced spehhhsss musical ambiance is Blomdahl's Aniara, set on a space ship going to Mars. You can also try Offenbach's A Trip to the Moon which is based on Jules Verne's story.
Forget about Galuppi. Haydn's is the version to listen.
Adam Baker
I think the most famous is Janacek's "The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century." And it isn't that famous and is the least recorded of his operas, but it's a lot of fun.
I knew a guy who wanted to stage HMS Pinafore as Starship Pinafore as G&S meets Star Trek. You could probably do something similar for Billy Budd now that I think about it.
Daniel Rodriguez
So, Tristan und Isolde?
Cooper Jackson
weeeeeeeeeeeedcvfgt
Jayden Myers
Talk about over-saturating the market. Competition kills your profit margins user. This is why pop music is so shit. Too many fuckers racing to the bottom to scrape a nickel.
why is klempererererer so good? what's his secret ingredient?
Cooper Jenkins
a brain tumor
Anthony Barnes
Capitalism is to blame comrade. You need the joy of more anime in your life. It's the only way to smash the system and bring forth a new golden age for communist music.
