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OCA Music web chat: Inspirational orchestration
Posted: 17/05/19 09:30 |
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Join OCA Music tutor Chris Lawry and fellow music students for an informal web chat from the comfort of your own home. The chat will start at 6.30pm on Wednesday 29 May and continue ‘live’ for at least an hour and a half. The chat will also remain open after that time for follow up conversations, or for those unable to be online at that time to catch up and read. The chat will provide an opportunity to ask questions, share ideas, inspirations and music, to highlight best practice in critical listening and compositional skills, and to engage with the wider OCA music community.
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Music and Maths 2: Back to Basics
Posted: 16/05/19 09:14 |
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While modernism and contemporary music are often thought of as very mathematical, numbers and ratios are in fact central to all western music. In this post I’m going to take a look at the roots of western music theory and explore the mathematical origins of our notions of consonance and dissonance.
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Music and maths 1: ___flow___
Posted: 07/05/19 09:47 |
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In this series of blog posts I’m going to be looking at some of the ways composers throughout history have explored music through numbers, and sharing some of my own approaches to composition.
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rarescale Summer School: Bursaries
Posted: 23/04/19 09:12 |
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OCASA has generously agreed to make two bursaries of £200 available for OCA students to attend the 2019 rarescale Summer School.
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Visual music
Posted: 17/04/19 09:02 |
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Music is, of course, a sonic art form but it need not deal only with sound. Music is kinetic; certain pieces might feel different to play or sing when compared to others (as a pianist, I have always preferred playing a B Major scale to a C Major scale, for example, because of how the […]
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Hildegard von Bingen: 12th-Century Ecstasy
Posted: 09/03/19 09:09 |
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After writing about one of the most important living composers, Unsuk Chin, for International Women’s Day, I’m continuing with a post about one of the very earliest composers we know of: Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), and her utterly unique contribution to the early history of western music.
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