Untried Ideas: Composing Music for Unfamiliar Instruments
Item
- Description
- In a college music program, a critical step in a composer's growth and development is to write daringly for new instruments, without having had extensive training in the intricacies and techniques of each instrument. Inevitably, a balance must be found between the composer's intent and the performer's ability to produce those ideas. The composer is challenged by not only creating a successful new composition but also adhering to the demands, challenges, and individual characteristics of each complex instrument. This presentation will address one student's compositional process beginning with his initial ideas and inspiration, then describing his research with respect to three wind instruments with which he was unacquainted, and finally describing the process of rehearsals, editing, and final performance of the piece. The presentation will conclude with a performance of Thomas Fox's suite for woodwind trio, 'Tales of the Cosmic Charles Bronson.'
- Heather Gilligan
- Contributor
- Keene State College
- Creator
- Thomas Fox
- Date
- 2015-04-11
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12088/7550
- Language
- en_US
- Subject
- Arts and Humanities
- Music
- Type
- Presentation
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
- Item sets
- AEC 2015 Humanities
- Site pages
- Humanities
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