Music composition and Finale Notepad
I was going to blog about learning theories and what I know about learning - I may still do that later today - but I find myself quite excited about the latest assignment for Gary's class. Compose a piece of music - how excellent!
Use Notepad Finale to do it - how interesting and new (for me).
I could spend hours w/ this tool. I love being able to hear the music as soon as I write it. I remember trying to write music w/ only a piano to work with- in some ways, this is so much nicer (I only wish the orchestra instruments actually sounded more like real ones. The piano sounds good though).
I have to be careful though, already I wrote something that starts out sounding kind of Jazzy and then suddenly jumps to a fancy sounding Baroque piece - I like each individual phrase, but they don't go together at all! I really need to figure out how to copy/paste, so that when I do that I can create a new file for the incongruous part.
The other interesting thing is that I find myself getting caught up in the visual aesthetics of the piece before I even listen to it to see if it sounds the way I want it too. I find myself placing notes on the score just because I like how they look not because I think they will sound pleasing (to my ear). Very, very interesting when I have composed before, Ive done it by playing the instrument first and then writing down what I played, this software allows and extremely different approach for me. How fascinating and fun
Use Notepad Finale to do it - how interesting and new (for me).
I could spend hours w/ this tool. I love being able to hear the music as soon as I write it. I remember trying to write music w/ only a piano to work with- in some ways, this is so much nicer (I only wish the orchestra instruments actually sounded more like real ones. The piano sounds good though).
I have to be careful though, already I wrote something that starts out sounding kind of Jazzy and then suddenly jumps to a fancy sounding Baroque piece - I like each individual phrase, but they don't go together at all! I really need to figure out how to copy/paste, so that when I do that I can create a new file for the incongruous part.
The other interesting thing is that I find myself getting caught up in the visual aesthetics of the piece before I even listen to it to see if it sounds the way I want it too. I find myself placing notes on the score just because I like how they look not because I think they will sound pleasing (to my ear). Very, very interesting when I have composed before, Ive done it by playing the instrument first and then writing down what I played, this software allows and extremely different approach for me. How fascinating and fun
posted by susan | 1:05 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home