Music Composition Assignments for 3.9.2018 Compositions scholars, your submissions to class last week were wonderful to hear. Great job! That’s a lot of hard work that you presented, and I’m […]

Music Composition For this Friday’s class, please be prepared to work on your composition in some capacity for about half of the class period. That can involve planning, discussing ideas […]

Music Composition Assignments for 2.2.2018 Reminder, your original and edited compositions are due to me by email on Wednesday, January 31st. I will then send you a Dropbox link to […]

Music Composition Assignments for 1.26.2018 Welcome back from our long winter break! This week we briefly discussed the editing process, noting that the goal of editing is to take whatever […]

Music Composition Assignment for 1.19.2018 Hello composers! Our semester has not quite started yet, but wanted to give you a heads up about a competition available for you. The deadline […]

Music Composition Class Assignment for 12.1.2017 In class we studied the most recent era of music by its most common label of “Contemporary Music.”  This period starts in the early […]

Music Composition Assignments for 11.17.2017 We discussed the Romantic Period in class.  This period started around 1800 and continued into the early 1900’s, and it followed on the heels of significant […]

Music Composition Assignments for 11.3.2017 We discussed the Baroque Period (160-1750) in class today. The Baroque Period followed many of the philosophical ideals of the Renaissance Period, in that individuals […]

 Music  Composition Assignment for 10.20.2017 Composition scholars, my sincere apologies for neglecting to get this to you. I hope it is not too much to digest in a short time. […]

Music Composition Assignments for 10.6.2017 This week we discussed the period known as Medieval, which for our purposes is around 700-1400 AD. The beginning date is admittedly arbitrary, and many […]

Composition Assignments for 9.29.2017 We discussed Friday the philosophical attachments we have to major and minor keys. Rather than automatically thinking of major music as “happy” and minor music as […]

Last week you had the task of writing an original melody, and you did great. We discussed some ideas for how you can structure melodies, including question/answer or call and […]