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Something of An Aural Question

This is just a quick update from my last post. I have now come up with a question for my students! “How do composers develop distinctive...

I've been trying to develop a good practice question to give to my HSC Music 2 students, and so in the process I read through every HSC...

In the last three posts in this series, I've been explaining my process for developing a couple of arrangements for students to perform....

In my two previous posts in this series (which can be found here and here), I discussed strategies to bring out the disjuncture between...

If you've read my last post, you'll know that I'm currently trying to explore ways to foreground the disjuncture that happens when your...

When I first listened to the opening moments of the third movement of "Pulse Magnet" (on the video above it's at 10:34), I was struck...

I was listening to that bit in "Pulse Magnet", you know, that bit? The bit around bar 384 where both pianos are playing augmented triads...

In two of my previous posts (here and here), I wrote up some of the lesson ideas that I'd had for an HSC Music 2 class. The lessons were...

I've been doing some more brainstorming, this time for lesson ideas based around Andy Akiho's "21". I've been particularly thinking about...

I've been working my way through the compositional features of "Pulse Magnet", trying to think of ways that I could turn interesting...