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Composing for Musical Styles
LTCL Composition Unit – Composing for Musical Styles I: From 17C to 20C
The course is designed for the students who want to improve their compositional skills. Throughout the history under the ingenuity of the great masters, multifarious styles ranging from miniature to complex lengthy works were cultivated and flourished in our concert repertories, for instance, Bach’s keyboard fugue and suite, Haydn’s string quartet and symphony, Beethoven’s sonata, Schubert’s lied, Schumann’s piano cycle, Chopin’s Nocturne and Polonaise, and Schoenberg’s 12-tone Klavierstudie and so forth. As a student composer, there is a great need to learn writing for different styles. The course is set for fulfilling such need, hoping to open a broader dimension on writing for different styles and genres for students.
Course Contents:
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Lesson 01 |
Polyphonic Learned Style I: Writing for 2-part keyboard-1 |
Baroque Minuet and Trio Sample: Bach’s Minuet in Am |
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Lesson 02 |
Polyphonic Learned Style II: Writing for |
Baroque Prelude and Fugue Sample: Bach’s Cm Fugue |
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Lesson 03 |
Diatonic Harmony I: Homophonic strings: Writing |
Classical Courtly Elegance Sample: Haydn SQ op76 no3 movII |
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Lesson 04 |
Diatonic Harmony II: Homophonic keyboard: |
Classical Courtly Elegance Sample: Mozart’s Keyboard Variation |
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Lesson 05 |
Motivic Variation I: Writing for Sonata-1 |
Generic Ambiguity: Sample: Beethoven’s Moonlight and Pathetique |
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Lesson 06 |
Motivic Variation II: Writing for |
Generic Ambiguity: Sample: Beethoven’s Moonlight and Pathetique |
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Lesson 07 |
Romanticized Chromaticism I: Schubert’s |
Poetry and Music: Sample: Schubert’s Wintereisse and Schwanengesang |
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Lesson 08 |
Romanticized Chromaticism II: Schubert’s |
Poetry and Music: Sample: Schubert’s Wintereisse and Schwanengesang |
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Lesson 09 |
Expansion of the Harmonic Palette I: |
Prelude as Poem: Sample: Chopin’s Prelude |
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Lesson 10 |
Expansion of the Harmonic Palette II: |
Program Instrumental Music: Sample |