GPO COMPOSITION ACADEMY: THE DEMAND-OFFER SHOW-CASE

[Fabio]

Hi Accademics,
in this thread we will collect a free brainstorming of a quick demand-offer database:

Teachers:
available for lectures, for one to one lessons....
specialized in..... or offering experience in.....

Students:
intersted in....
available to post curriculum later, in the form we are preparing.

The single member may be contemporarly teacher and student at different levels or on different matter.

Thanks. ;)

[Jonny Lost]

Fabio,

I'm willing to give some classes on theory (basic and advanced) compositional practices, and maybe some music history.


Anyone interested?


Jonny

[ZachBG]

As a student, I'd be interested in intermediate to advanced theory; orchestration; jazz composition (when the new lib comes out!); and, well, pretty much everything.

[Stephanie Pray]

What about using dynamics properly? Are there rules or is it free for all? I have trouble with these! :)

[Garritan]

Fabio,

Great idea! This will be very valuable to many musicians.

Count me in too! Theory, orchestration and harp lessons http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

Thank you for providing this valuable resource.

Gary Garritan

[BermudaFlyer]

Teacher: offering help in orchestration, MIDI techniques, percussion.

Student: of everything else! :cool:

[trentpmcd]

Teacher – I can offer elementary theory. I’m talking for people who think they know what a triad is but aren’t really sure what photography equipment has to do with music :D . I’d be willing to take small groups or do one-on-one.

A little more seriously, I would use Imogen Holst’s book ABC of Music as a kind of text book (don’t worry, it’s about $10). This is a good intro to music notation, counterpoint and harmony in a historical setting, i.e., a good intro to classical music in general. I would supplement it from my own reading and post examples in pdf and midi form.


Student – I’m interested in form, counterpoint, advanced harmony, orchestration, and notation. Also I’d like more in-depth, honest critiques of music I write.

[Christopher Duncan]

Fabio,

Great idea, man. Down the line, after you get things going, perhaps we can do a TCC show featuring the work of everyone's students.

[southportJim]

Fabio,

Great idea, man. Down the line, after you get things going, perhaps we can do a TCC show featuring the work of everyone's students.

Good idea...could make an interesting show.

[southportJim]

Fabio,

As a student, I am interested in:

1) Counterpoint (Fux, Jeppesen, or whomever - I have been working my way thru Peter Schubert's "Modal Counterpoint, Renaissance Style"). I'm really more interested in Medieval v.s. Renaissance, but either one is fine.

2) "advanced" MIDI - or maybe not so "advanced". :-) I know about "note on/note off" and velocity...didn't know about "modulation" curves until I got GPO and worked thru some of the tutorials...and still don't have a clue about any of the rest of the midi controls.

3) Basic Mixing - my GPO contest piece was submitted straight out of GPO using its "record" feature becuase I didn't have time to figure out the bundled Cubasis or my own Cakewalk Home Studio. I'm a little better off now, but not much!

4) More advanced theory and harmony, especially quartal harmony and so-called "non-functional harmony".

I realize we can't do all of these, but any one of them would be great!

[jesshmusic]

Right on Fabio! You practically got the whole thing organized by the time i was home from work. The response is also outstanding. :)
As a student right now, I am working on getting my piano proficiency way up so I can survive the Grad school audition.

TEACHER: I will teach music composition to anyone interested on a assignment and critiquing method. The student will not get critiques like "I don't like that melody" I will advise on proper notation, capabilities of instruments, form, and most importantly good compositional technique. My plan was to have a thread that I posted a weekly composition assignment. At the end of the week everyone would post a PDF or Finale file of their composition for analysis by me. :) All of the students would learn from each others work as I would prefer more than one on one. So, I would critique the students works and give suggestions for changes (or not) and then give the next assignment explain new techniques. This would cover a wide spectrum of compositional styles, so no one should get bored. :)

[Jonny Lost]

Hey How about a music technology class?

Anyone?

Jonny

[Jerry W.]

Teacher:Basic theory, General music history, Finale notation software. Tweaking GPO to work with low-end Mac systems.

Student - EVERYTHING! (not helpful, I know) Actually, i would like some training on stylistic practices of compostional and orchestration techniques - (i.e. what makes a baroque composition "sound" baroque, etc. Most of this I already know - but I am sure there are a lot of things I don't yet know)

:)

Jerry Wickham

[GF]

Teacher: Jazz theory, Midi

Student: Counterpoint, Stylistic Practices, Compositional and Orchestration Techniques, Advanced Harmony

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[Stephanie Pray]

Music Technology? Would that be mixing, editing etc? Or something else? Sounds interesting though. After doing a mixdown last night, I realized that I may need help with that process as well. Stereo spread, panning etc. :)

[Fabio]

This precious database will be used soon to create first classes!

Read recent topic for news (Gary and Christopher are giving us unvaluable support!) :)

[Kinvint]

I could probably do some "Songwriting for Musical Theatre" classes, if anyone is interested. This wouldn't include notation or any theory of music - it would simply be technique, structure, mood and theme for composing music in theatrical contexts. The work of the students would involve taking a scene from a play and writing songs for soloists (SATBs), duets and full company numbers, including the "11 O'clock number" and a show finale.
My daily job is teaching Drama and Musical Theatre at a high school, if this helps :)

Paul Deakin
(Kinvint)

[BermudaFlyer]

Paul,

That's great! While I've done tons of underscoring for staged dramas, I wish I could write musicals (or even songs). I'm really just afraid because I haven't REALLY tried it. But I'm sure I'll be asking you for some pointers and guidlines. :cool:

[daveporter]

The GPO Academy is a great idea!

My music theory and composition skills are so rusty (took my training over 30 years ago and have not event attempted to compose anything in the last 25) that I have forgotten most of what I once knew and believe that I need to start at the beginning again. I would love to participate in basic theory, composition and related courses.

As far as helping with the teaching, I have been relatively successful at building and optimizing PC based DAWs for my own, and other's, use. I do not have the time available to develop and teach the course myself, however, I would be willing to help someone who is willing to be the principal instructor review his course materials and perhaps assist in developing a couple of the lessons to the extent that my time permits.