LTCL Music Composition Special Program-II

LTCL Music Composition Special Program II

Theory, Analysis and Composing of Contemporary Music:

While Stravinsky gave seven talks to the students of Harvest University, Leung Sir also give a series of lecture-talk for the coming two months. The topics will include contemporary composers and their seminal works. By considering their creative techniques, as well as the underlying ideas and concepts, together with the socio-cultural contexts that may influence their works, these ten talks will attempt to posit an analytical-explication of such works. This lecture-talk will not only help the compositional students to plan and organize their compositions, but also enhance a better way of understanding of contemporary works, which is important for the musicians and music lovers.

The lecture-talk details are as follows:

Lesson
1

April
25

The
various combinations of pitch collection: Charles Ives’s Cage

Charles
Ives: The Cage

Lesson
2

May
9

Learning
to write 20^th Century melody:

Melodic
Respects and Rules

Lesson
1 of The 20^th Century
Musical Idioms

Lesson
3

May
16

Set
theory Concept: use of motivic set and larger scale pitch progression

Alban Berg: Song op2 no 2

Mombert

Lesson
4

May
23

Learning
to write increasing/ sharp dissonance:

Lesson
2 of The 20^th Century
Musical Idioms

Lesson
5

May
30

Use
of different pitch collections:

Meditative
style of spiral upward motion

Olivier
Maessian:

The End of Time Quartet no8.

Lesson
6

June
6

Learning
to write 20^th Century counterpoint

Lesson
3 of The 20^th Century
Musical Idioms

Lesson
7

Jun
13

Writing
for the Oriental Philosophy:

Memorial
of Isang Yun

Hosokawa’s
In the Memory of Isang Yun

Lesson
8

Jun
20

The
Allusion and Quotation: Tung Lai Shing’s Temporal Travel

Tung
Lai Shing’s The Book of Laugher and
Forgetting

Mov1
and 2

Lesson
9

Jun
27

Imitating
the sound mass projection: sonic gestures, blocks and clusters.

Arvo
Part’s

Symphony no 2

Lesson
10

July
4

Symmetry
and Centricity: Bartok’s Mikrokosmos and String Quartet

Bartok
String Quartet no 3 mov 1

Mikrokosmos
Book Six: Subject and Reflection