Stephen Taylor and Halim Beere, instructors
Saturdays at 1 pm, Music Building Room 5047 (CAMIL computer lab)
Welcome! Our plan for this semester is for each of you to compose a short piece for your peers, to be premiered at the spring concert on May 18. The exact instrumentation is up to you - it can be anything from solo instrument up to four or five players.
We will learn how to compose for strings and piano: instrument ranges, techniques like double- and triple-stops, as well as some more extended techniques including sul ponticello, sul tasto, harmonics (both for strings and piano), playing inside the piano, etc. We will also be studying some of the best chamber music composed in the last 100 years, and we will learn the basics of notating scores and parts with Sibelius, the music notation software in our CAMIL computer lab.
You will also be driving the repertoire and class activity - we would like each of you to post ideas, questions, cool videos, etc. to this blog, so that during the week we can all keep working on our pieces.
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