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Guest Composers. Here you find articles about the artists that have worked as guest composers at EMS from 2010 and onwards.
The piece quotes the ‘Dona nobis pacem’ from a mass by the 16th century Scottish composer Robert Carver. The sentiment, give us peace, could not be more heartfelt, and the use of the tune, ‘the armed man should be feared’, feels particularly poignant in light of recent events. A Renewal of Faith.
This video is dedicated to all of the composers across the Yakuza franchise that have only composed a few songs, or only composed for a few games.
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- What Is Minimalism in Music?
- Steve Reich
- ARVO Pärt
- Philip Glass
- Ryiuchi Sakamoto
- John Adams
- Julius Eastman
- William Basinski
- Michael Nyman
- Meredith Monk
Minimalism in music is characterised by repeating musical patterns (ostinatos), harmonic consonance, drones, and, often, the use of steady, pulsating rhythmic patterns. Minimalist composers use repeating patterns rather than developing a musical ‘narrative.’ The music is not trying to ‘go’ anywhere. Rather, the goal is to strip music back to its ba...
American composer Steve Reich has been hugely important to the development of minimalist music since the 1960s. His most famous composition is Music for 18 Musicians, first performed in New York in 1976. The amazing, pulsating work which has been compared to Balinese gamelan music, builds up layers of violin, cello, clarinet, piano, marimba, xyloph...
Perhaps surprisingly, Estonian composer Arvo Pärt is one of the most-performed composers in the world today. Taking inspiration from minimalism and religious music, Pärt’s music often features tintinnabulum, a compositional approach that he invented, and is best displayed in the peaceful Spiegel im Spiegel and majestically mournful Cantus in Memori...
One of the founding fathers of minimalist music, Philip Glass is a pianist and celebrated minimalist composer. Exceptionally prolific, Glass has composed some fifteen operas, fourteen symphonies, twelve concertos, nine string quartets, as well as numerous other projects, including a number of film scores. Find a way into his oeuvre via Music in Twe...
Ryiuchi Sakamoto is a Japanese minimalist composer and pianist, whose minimalism ventures more into the electronic music realm than some of the others on this list, even reaching into the realms of electronic dance music. His ambient music collaborations with Alva Noto are of particular note, as well as his film soundtracks that have seen him honou...
John Adams is an American composer whose music has strong origins in minimalism, combined with elements of romanticism and impressionism. Adams’ compositions from the late 70s, Phrygian Gates (1977) and Shaker Loops (1978), are perhaps the best examples of his use of minimalism. The stunning orchestral Harmonielehre (1985)deserves special mention, ...
Julius Eastman was an African-American composer who famously combined elements of minimalist music with pop music, with his compositions often addressing political themes of race and sexuality. Amongst his best-regarded albums are Femenine (1974) and Unjust Malaise (2005).
William Basinski is an American avant-garde sound artist and minimalist composer. Trained in clarinet and saxophone, his largely ambient compositions often heavily use tape loops. His best-known works are the four volume The Disintegration Loops (2002-2003). Some of his other acclaimed minimalist ambient albums include Watermusic (2000) and Melanch...
Michael Nyman is British minimalist composer. Although his preference is for opera, Nyman has achieved significant acclaim in the world of film soundtracks. He is best known for his beautiful piano work ‘The Heart Asks Pleasure First,’ which was part of the multi-award winning soundtrack to the 1993 Jane Campion film The Piano.
The boundary-pushing Meredith Monk is an avant-garde American composer, known especially for her interdisciplinary work which combines music, theatre, and dance. She is one of the most influential avant-garde women composers in 20th century American music. With roots in folk music, her compositions frequently use elements of minimalism – repetitive...
May 13, 2018 · Composers use MIDI keyboards to create musical scores like writers use QWERTY keyboards to create prose. Moreover, piano is compulsory instrument in most music schools, so anyone who received formal musical education can play piano.
- A piano/keyboard with its usual 88 notes covers the range of most other instruments put together. A lot of instruments have a range of two or three...
- Because on a piano you can try out single-note melodies, block chords, broken chords, polyphonic musical lines... and all at once, over a wide rang...
- A film composer usually uses as synthesizer/midi controller connected to a computer. Same with any kind of music producers (rap producers, edm prod...
- That's not really the case. Not all conductors use keyboards. Of course, there are a lot who use them, and they do it because they can get the pict...
- Another point I haven't seen mentioned here is that composing music, in your context, sounds like getting it scored on paper for others to read. Wr...
Guest composers, professional performers and ensembles regularly visit the School to carry out composition workshops and seminars. This gives you an opportunity to hear your music come to life and gain practical experience of working with performers to realise your compositional ideas in a friendly and supportive atmosphere.
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This series underpins all composition studies and features guest composers such as Brian Eno, Simon Holt, Judith Weir, Beat Furrer, Martijn Padding, Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, and Betsy Jolas. Discovery events
