Week 2: Develop // Mar 29th
Welcome to Week 2's main thread! Here you can find the outline of materials and sample exercises to get you started. Then, post your finished exercises (either all at once or one at a time depending on your work flow.) Please use the following format when posting:
- Type(s) of development exercises used:
- Things you found easy:
- Things you found difficult:
Feel free to include any other thoughts in your post!
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Here's mine.
I've done some diminutions and inversions and transpositions and things like that. I kept it to one page, so maybe the end feels a bit squished.
I think it needs a title, but I don't have one.
Hopefully I'll record it if I have time.
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Roni Glaser Hope you have chance to record it - it looks very interesting
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Roni Glaser +1 for a recording of yours :)
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Roni Glaser looks great! And playable only with little effort (2-3 days of practice)
Jazzy...
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Gokce Turkmendag
I exported them to mp3. Here it goes
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José Espírito Santo thank you for sharing, I am listening now
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Okay. It was the Holy Week, andI had little time. So, I stole some time. Tempo rubato
not the case of this exercise.
worked on: a 7 note theme, in 2 motifs, the 7th note appearing only in the second motif. I tried some voicing and rhythmic variations.easy: once established the theme, find ways to work with it.
difficult: work with brain and sound, my brain wants to maintain order while the sound ( playing on the guitar) tells me it’s too cerebral and rigid.. very hard to find a true expression.but okay it’s just the beginning, an exercise, to explore composition techniques
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joosje I like it (maybe more than mine)
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joosje very interesting theme and you did completely different in style this time. I understand you, it's hard to find a good balance between intellectual ideas and how expressive they are beyond notes.
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joosje I love your experimentation with textures in this exercise! and that motive is just great, I would keep developing it into more ideas, and experiment even more with texture and counterpoint. Great work!
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Hi Ash,
I created a 5 note dotted rhythm motive. Then did a bit of Fragmentation and voice switching with straight 8th note rhythm. Next, introduced some scaler lines and chords. Ended the exercise with back to a dotted rhythm and retrograde melody.
It was relatively easy doing the mechanical variations.
It was difficult thinking of a musical idea and starting the exercise, and not sure about the logic of my dotted rhythm motive along with the straight rhythms.
I welcome your comments/suggestions. Thanks!!!
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Barney thanks for sharing! I think that little rhythmic motive you came up with is really interesting on its own and would yield a lot of material for you to use. I would focus on developing that motive only rather than adding new material. Try working with the intervals by using fragmentation, or try augmenting the rhythm then combining it with a texture or other voice above or below. Looking forward to hearing more!
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OK - I have used my previous theme and I got bossa-nova (the title was created because I have no inspiration and I'm lazy for Easter). I don't think I can afford more today. I don't know if it will be possible to record it for the Monday livestream ...
In Poland, the second day of Easter (Monday) is called "Śmigus-Dyngus" and people pour water on each other on the street. If I stay at home - maybe I can record it
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Marek Tabisz nice rhythm Marek. I like it. Btw, in Czech Republic, too, they have nice traditions: on Easter Monday boys get willow branches, braid them together into whips and decorate them with ribbons to whip girls with for luck and fertility. The word for this whip in Czech is pomlázka, which has also become the name of the tradition itself. happy to be back in Belgium
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Marek not only nice rhythm, it’s a nice and funky piece all over
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Marek Tabisz I love it! charming and clever, simple but very well written. Thanks for sharing!
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Marek Tabisz happy easter! I don't think that you are lazy, you've done a good job. Nice rhythm and details. I love boosa nova
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Ashley (Ash) Lucero Thank you! I'm happy you like it.
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Gokce Turkmendag Happy Easte to you too! Thank you for your kind words. Believe me, I can be very lazy and if it weren't for the deadlines, I don't know how I would function
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OK Debbie , Marek Tabisz and Blaise Laflamme , you twisted my arm.
Here's a recording of the piece. Er, you didn't ask for a good performance, so... you get what you wish for
. I did my best with the time I had. Thanks for your encouragement! There is an added cat this time to make up for it though.
I gave it a title - "Arisings and Passings"
Oh, and I forgot to say what was easy and difficult:
Easy - the task of just doing the diminution, transposition etc. and exploring the musicality of the material
Hard - I had ideas for how I wanted to relate all the materials, but often the natural development of a single phrase would go in a slightly different direction to the one I was planning, e.g. I was planning to direct the melody to a specific note at the end so that it would resolve to where I wanted later, but that melody ended up progressing to far, or it needed too many repetitions to get to the point I wanted and became too repetitive. I also found that the melodic transformations I was doing here prodded me towards a more Bach-type texture, which is OK, but I found a little tricky to maintain a style I like and use more interesting sonorities on the guitar. Also, just deciding clearly on the harmony - I knew the types of chords I wanted, and I didn't want to do anything particularly classical, but as soon as you attempt to do things untraditionally, you deprive yourself of all the technical resources the traditional systems have.
I also made some minimal changes to the score too, so here it is again:
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Roni Glaser great! I like the texture and mood of your music. And you did great for the performance... and it's your music so you can rewrite it as you play
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Blaise Laflamme Thanks Blaise!
That’s the blessing and the curse of it being my music, I can write it and rewrite it and rewrite it and rewrite and never finish it! It’s good that this challenge is weekly so we have a deadline to just stick with what we’ve got!
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Roni Glaser i'm really digging the Takemitsu-esque eccentric nature of this music. Kudos for sharing that performance video, great work!
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Roni Glaser
Niiiice work, Roni Glaser . Thanks for sharing the video performing it.
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Ashley (Ash) Lucero Thanks Ash!
“Eccentric Takemitsu” - I love that as a description! Pretty much how I’m feeling right now:
Rain on the window
Moments of lockdown despair
Challenge to compose
ロニの心のトーンベースの俳句
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José Espírito Santo Thanks José!
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