Compose a polyphonic melody, then write a monophonic fugue on it.
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Composition Exercise #190
Completely rip off someone else’s tweet and retroactively use it as a Composition Exercise:
Completely rip off Tobias Reber’s Composition Exercises series and build a Twitter account around it. Post every day.
Composition Exercise #190
Completely rip off Tobias Reber's Composition Exercises series and build a Twitter account around it.
Post every day.@tobiasreber— NonCochlearPosting (@NonCochlear) September 13, 2018
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Composition Exercise #189
Give a fellow musician sound advice.
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Composition Exercise #188
Remember that there are generous ears waiting to hear you expressing yourself.
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Composition Exercise #187
Think of a way you haven’t listened before, then listen that way.
[I’m giving an afternoon class on “Kann man Hören lernen? (Can we learn to listen?)” at the Swiss Chamber Music Festival Adelboden. The course takes place in Kandersteg, Switzerland on September 15th, 2-5pm. Info and registration here.]
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Composition Exercise #186
Fold a paper boat from every page of Händel’s Water Music and let them float away on a river.
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Composition Exercise #185
Sonify Beethoven’s Fifth.
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Composition Exercise #184
Improvise a Ferneyhough.
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Composition Exercise #183
Composition Exercise #182
Envelope-follow your breath and use it as an LFO.
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