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Welcome  To    I  Write  The  Music




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Music  Learning Center  For  Composers,  Songwriters  &  Improvisers


Find The Creative Music Tools And Professional Advice You Need










    







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Music  is about your  life experiences,  dreams & love for people



Reaching beyond yourself  ,  stretching your musicianship  &  creative skills



Being active in the  music communityperforming  &  collaborating  with  music artists




Your Songwriting  tells stories  that change our lives




Your music  helps us understand the  drama  in our personal lives.



And, oh yes , thanks for the  great tunes  we sing to ourselves all day!








Pulling us into dimensions of  sound experience


Probing our capacity for  beauty , spiritual depth  &  the  interplay of competing music ideas




Your Music Improvisations   leave us spellbound




You have a real-life grasp of  music theory  in your  mind  and fingers.
 

You make it all  sound so easy



Your  musical ideas  seem to  flow endlessly out of you  musical form  

evolving as you play.
Able to interpret  your  audience  with the finesse of a magician. 



You collaborate with other musicians,   each listening to the others
co-creating , 

waiting  for your turn to shine









Elements of pre-composition ,  performance & musicianship at the  highest levels
 
creating great music in real time.




You amaze us in the moment - and professionals admire your creative prowess
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Music  Resources  For  Creative  Musicians




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Musician's Toolkit



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Composers New Pencil

A site made by composers for composers of any level or genre. On our site you will find information about
software, books, scores,  schools, competitions and the music tools of today.  Our blog features insightful
articles, interviews, tips and reviews related to music composition.  Join our forum!



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Composition Today

Offers a huge range resources exclusively for composers  |  Articles  |  Interviews  |  Sound Bank  |  Reviews  |  Concert Listings  |  Competitions  |  Jobs & Opps  |  Workshops  |  Composer Database  |  Show Case  |  Forums  | 


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Songwriting Tips & Tools - The Muse's Muse

Links Directory  | CD Reviews  | Songwriting Message Board  | Artist Spotlights  | Radio Muse  | For Beginners  | For Pros  | For Singers  | For Guitarists  | Songwriter's Store  | Press Releases  | Featured Tool  | Featured Education  | Songwriter's Toolkit  | Site Tips  | Voice Overs & Vocals (by Jodi)  | 



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Vocalist.org.uk

"Vocalist the singers resource contains free online singing lessons, learn to sing with articles on voice / auditions / performing or working in the music industry"  |   Acts & Bands  |  Articles Index |  Awards |  Books & Audio Books  |  Careers & Jobs  |  Databases  |  Downloads  |  Equipment  |  Fun & Freebies  |  Gifts & Goodies  |  Gig Guide  |  Interact   |  Material  |  Resources  |  Teachers & Coaches  |  Vocal Health  |  Vocal Software  |  Voice  Training  | 



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Music Improvisation  @  Wikipedia

Musical improvisation is the spontaneous creative process of making music while it is being performed. Improvisation exists in almost all music, but is closely associated with particular genres such as blues, jazz, bluegrass, the Taqsim of Arabic and Turkish music, Indonesian gamelan, and Indian classical music. To use a linguistic analogy, improvisation is like speaking or having a conversation as opposed to reciting a written text. Among jazz musicians there is an adage, "improvisation is composition speeded up," and vice versa, "composition is improvisation slowed down."



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Musiclosophy

Jazz improvisation, piano improvising, music harmony & theory


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Artistopia: Music Directory

"Welcome to the fastest growing music directory on the web!"  |  Bands and Artists  -  Business  -  Buy  -  Charts  -  Education  -  Events  -  Genres  -  News  -  Online  -  Radio  -  Venues  |   Each of the preceding directory topics leads to many sub-topic pages!  |  This is it!  Explore and Learn  |  Each music genre artist has music clips  | 



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BandRadio

The Unsigned Band Resource


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Tonal Resources for the Creative Musician

jacmuse.com  |  "Welcome to the "cyber text" of American popular music. Where interactive hypertext redefines our explorations of the "tonal resources" that create the musical sounds we love. From folk song to the blues, towards jazz and into pop, rock and classical, the cybertext creates a "3d" learning environment, inclusive of all the sounds we dig. Exploring from the organic sources of sound and pitch to the brightest creative musical stars in our musical universe who shape them, our cyber text allows for a wholeness of learning directed by our own interests, passions and curiosities of the music we love." 


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Tom  Pankhurst's  TonalityGuide

A series of music theory tutorials,  very useful for creative musicianship


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Digital Music  @  About.com

Articles & Tutorials



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SoundJunction

Use the interactive tools in SoundJunction to create music yourself. The links on this page guide you through the creative process and give ideas for some of the sounds you could create.  Or visit the Composer forum to listen to the music other users have created on SoundJunction


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DavidNevue

How To Compose Piano Music   -   Start with the melody   -   What is your song about?   -   Want an intro?   -   Follow the Muse   -   Repeat with style   -   Build slowly, but build something   Mistakes count   -   Change is good   -   Let time have its way   -   Get a tape recorder


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Noteflight

An online application that lets you display, edit, print and play back music notation
with professional quality, right in your web browser. You can work on a musical score from any computer on the Internet, share it with other users, and embed it in your own pages. And it's free for individual use   |   The Online Notation Software That;s Re-inventing Music On The Web  | 


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Taxi.com

Resources for Songwriters, Artists, Composersand Bands  |  Download StudioBuddy  | Unsigned?  |  Music Biz FAQ  |  Musician Referral Service  |  Songwriting  |  Recording  |  Music Industry  |  Musician  |  Musicians Junction  |  Articles |  Opportunities  |  Road Rally  | Forums  |  News  |  What Music Industry Is Looking For  |  SiteMap  |  Succes Stories  |  Books We Love  |  Genre Descriptions  |  List Of Categories  |  referenced artists  |  Articles  | 



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Jeff Mallett's Site

Special Features  |  Songwriting Advice  |  Writing Tips  |  Articles  |  Legal/Business  |  Resources  |  Newsgroups  |  Chats  |  E-mail lists  |  Newsletters  |  Message Boards, Public Lyric Critiques  |  Song - writing Sites  |  Writing References |  Lyrics  |  Magazines: Songwriting & Industry  |  Books  |  Orgs |  Performance Rights  |  Products & Services  |  Instruction  |  Wanted  |  Songwriting Services |  Song Pitching and Artist Promotion  |  Publishers  |  Songwriter Demo Services  |  Software  |  Contests  |  Showcases  |  Charts  |  Music Industry/Musicians | Copyright  | 



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Songwriters Resource Network

"Songwriting Tips, News & Information For Songwriters"



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Piano Improvisation Techniques

Bing Search Results 


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MusiciansNetwork.com

Agents and Managers (508)  |  Anti-Music (146)  |  Arranging (4)  |  Awards (47)  |   Bands and Artists (40458)  |  Charts (101)  |  Chats and Forums (152)  |  Classifieds (42)  |  Clubs and Venues (370)  |  Collecting (214)  |   Composers and Arrangers (313)  |  Composition (11552)  |  Computers (25)  |   Concerts and Events (439)  |  Consulting (63)  |  Directories (175)  |  Directories (66)  |  DJs (678)  |  Education  (293)  |  Employment (22)  |  Engravers (142)  |  History (86)  |  Instruments (8821)  |  Labels (2662)  |   Licensing (65)  |  Lyrics (808)  |  Marching (1381)  |  Movies (122)  |  Music Videos (153)  |  Musicology (211)  |   News and Media (266)  |  Organizations (63)  |  People (2)  |  Personal Pages (445)  |  Production (834)  |  Promotion (208)  |  Regional (2)   |  Resources (235)  |  Reviews (241)  |  Songwriting (287)  |  Sound Files  |  1414)  |  Styles (23273)  |  Technology (58)   |  Theory (87)  |  Trading (318)  |  Vocal (2572)  |  Weblogs (20)  |   Wholesale and Distribution (67)  |  Women in Music (938)  | 



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Music Composition Resource

Books & Articles  -   General reference, instruments & orchestration, composers & their art,  notation, twentieth century music theory & history  |  Internet sites  -   Links to music publishers, search engines, music resources and more  |  Recordings -   Trends in twentieth century music: historical background, composers & recent works (including WWW links)  |  Music Composition FAQ  -   Getting started, motivation & dry spells, creative principles, helping factors, miscellaneous concerns  | 



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pianocomposition.blogspot.com

Tips to memorize piano music   |   Improvisation Tips



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ComposersCollaborative

Formed to promote new music through productions, seminars,  and workshops  | 



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Composer Tools.com

Tools  |   20th Century Music Theory  |  Listening Guide  |  Dictionary  | 



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The Orchestra: An Online User’s Manual

Composers New Pencil


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Bjorn Lynne's music composition and production tips

Welcome to my page of "hints, tricks and tips" when composing and producing your own music.  This page is simply a result of "public demand", as a lot of people write to me and ask for tips about writing their own music  |  It's actually quite strange that I should write this kind of stuff - as I have no formal music education, neither in composition nor in production. So the cynics out there may perhaps say that I haven't got a clue what I'm talking about. And they are right!"  | 



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ComposersOnline.org

An independent web magazine for composers  | 



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Classical music Navigator

Info on 444 classical music composers



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Classical Composers Database

Upcoming concerts  |   Composer calendar   |   Composer timeline   |   American composers   |  Brazilian composers   |   British composers   |   Czech composers   |   Dutch composers   |  French composers   |   German composers   |   Italian composers   |   Norwegian composers   |  Russian composers   |   more countries   |  


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HomeRecording.com

|  Digital  |  Recording  |  Mixing  |  FAQs / Tutorials  |  Reviews  |  Dragon Sez  |  BBS / Forum  |  Glossary  |  Drum Basics  |  Mastering  |  Equipment  |  Mixing  |  Computer Recording  |  Sound Card Basics  |  Digital Q & A  |  Burn CDs  |  Going Digital  |  Web Stuff  |  Learn Guitar, Bass, and Piano  |  Real Audio  |  MP3  |  Which CDR  |  Digital Primer  |  Digital Math 101  |  1-Minute Digital Recorder  |  Chat  |  Online Band Search  |  MusicLynx  |  Home Recording Webring  | 



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ASCAP Resource Center

Career Development  |  ASCAP Corner  |  Cue Sheet Corner  |  Feature Articles  |  Keen On Music Publishing  |  Murphy's Laws of Songwriting  |  Music And Money  |  Music, Money, Success & Movies  |  Zen and the Art of A&R  |  Collabarator Corner  |  Events Calandar  |  "I Create Music" EXPO  |  Resource Guide  |  Showcases  |  Workshops  | 



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C/NET Music Forums

Buzz Out Loud  |  MP3 Insider Lounge  |  Digital Music  |  Home Audio & Video  |  MP3 Players  | 



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Bjorn Lynne's music composition and production tips

Phrase your solos   |   Audio advice offered   |   Finish your songs
  



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AllExperts

Musical Composition, Theory, Songwriting and Singing / Experts   |  



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The Mutopia Project: Free Sheet Music For Everyone

"Offers sheet music editions of classical music for free download. These are based on editions in the public domain, and include works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Handel, Mozart, and many others. A team of volunteers are involved in typesetting the music by computer using the LilyPond software."



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Yahoo Directory

Music Composition > Songwriting


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Popular Music Composers Homepages


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Open Directory:  Contemporary Composers


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How To Become A Game Music Composer


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A Practical Guide to Musical Composition

Contents of the book by Alan Belkin


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JacMuse

"Cyber Text"  for the Theory of American Music   |   "It looks at the popular musical resources of our collective past and present and examines common ways in which these elements are combined in creating the various popular American styles of music we love"


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SynthZone  -  Featured Links

Electronic Keyboards   |   Music & Audio Software   |   Synth Related Resources   |   Suggested Starting Points   |   Other Music Resources   | 



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Kosmix.com Page

Music Topics Explored   -   Deepen Your Understanding Of Music  - 
Much more than a search engine & directory.  It is an aggregator of relevant content.  |  
Explore & Learn!   Here are some sample keyword pages  from Kosmix.com  

More Websites That Help You Understand The Many Worlds Of Music


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Music Web Resources 

Music genres   -   Musical InstrumentGarageband & Digital Music   -   Experiment with Music   - 
MIDI   -   Podcasts    -   Music Composition   -   Songwriting & Lyrics   -   Music Theory   -  
Music & Sound Effects   -   Other Music Sites   -   Music Dictionaries   -   Music Games & Drills   Careers In Music 



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Music  Headliners




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EFF Takes On Volomedia's Attempt To Patent Podcasting  -  BoingBoing

"A company called
Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting"


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Stefani Germanotta — aka Lady Gaga

Performs two songs she wrote herself   - 
BoingBoing - YouTube clip shows her in a talent show showing her songwritingskills


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Britain's New Internet Law - As Bad As Everyone's Been Saying, And Worse.  Much, Much Worse!  -  BoingBoing

"Digital Economy Bill  -  almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the "three-strikes" rule that allows your entire family to be cut off from the net if anyone who lives in your house is accused of copyright infringement. 
£50,000 fines if someone in your house is accused of filesharing. A duty on ISPs to spy on all their customers in case they find something that would help the record or film industry sue them"


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Google Closes The Loop On Music Search   -   Wired   -   By Eliot Van Buskirk

"Search for any artist, album or song in the regular Google search box, and Google’s new “OneBox” music search feature — rolling out to U.S. users starting now — displays a box of playable search results, so you can hear what something sounds like with one click of the play button"


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NPR Music News 

News - Reviews - Blogs - Concerts - Studio Sessions  -  Interviews - Discover Songs


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Music Business Expert Passman:  Subscriptions Can Save Us   -   C/NET

"Record labels get a cut of the artist's revenue from touring, merchandise, and other sources apart from record sales] are a tectonic shift in the way record deals get done"



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DJ From Your iPhone With TouchDJ   -   C/NET


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Hulu Lands First Music Label Deal   -   C/NET

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Hulu, the Web's No. 2 video service attracting viewers by offering full-length films and TV shows, now wants to become a video jukebox"


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Sony Plannong Online Store   -   C/NET

Music, movies, books, and other downloadable content geared for its various electronics, including TVs, mobile phones, music players, and computers



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Gustavo Santaolalla,  Making Music For Both Stage and Screen   -   PBS

Posted by Alicia Lozano

"I don't see myself as a film composer," he said. "I see myself as more of an artist that uses different forms to express myself. I love it all."



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Economist   -   How To Sink Pirates   |  

The decline of music piracy holds lessons for other industries


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Playdar is a music content resolver service

Run it on every computer you use, and you'll be able to listen to all the songs you would otherwise be able to find manually by searching though all your computers, hard disks, online services, and more. Playdar is a "Content Resolver" - it will take metadata (artist, album, track names) and resolve them to a location of a matching music file. This might be on your disk, or over the network - regardless, sources are always presented as URLs that point to your local machine. Playdar runs a lightweight webserver on your machine - this is how you talk to it, and it's how other desktop apps and web apps talk to it.



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Must-have live recordings at Grooveshark


Grooveshark is a great source for sampling live shows before you buy them.



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iTunes music library makes its way to the browser

Apple quietly launched a new preview service this week that makes it easier for users to view its iTunes music library from the browser.

by Don Reisinger - C/NET



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YouTube to get high-def 1080p player

"YouTube exec announces another bump-up in available YouTube resolution. The new resolution, as well as a new full-screen player, will roll out to all users within days.


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4 Ways Live & Digital Music Are Teaming Up To Rock Your World

Wired   -   Elliot von Buskirk    |   Live concert webcasting   |  

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YouTube webcast its first-ever live full-length concert last Sunday: U2 at the Pasadena Rose Bowl. It brought in 10 million viewers worldwide in addition to the 100,000 who attended in person. A spokesman said that makes it the biggest event in the site’s history." 


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NPR Invites Listeners To Vote For Music's  "50 Great Voices"

Wired   -  
By John Scott Lewinsk

"Who would win in a dulcet-toned grudge match between Judy Garland and Otis Redding? What voice would crack first if Stevie Wonder took on Dolly Parton?"




Science Legends Remixed Into Educational Music Video 

Wired   -   Kevin Makice 

"
Symphony of Science is a music video project paying tribute to the great minds of popular science."




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Google Closes The Loop On Music Search

Wired   -   
Elliot von Buskirk

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Search for any artist, album or song in the regular Google search box, and Google’s new “OneBox” music search feature — rolling out to U.S. users starting now — displays a box of playable search results, so you can hear what something sounds like with one click of the play button."



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Let Us Leave Our Musical Islands   -   Slate   -   Ben Tattlif   |   All Art Is Performance Art   |   

"improvisation creeping (back) into classical music, and classical musicians "trying to move away from the formal concert ritual and toward something more relaxed"   


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Internet Music Collaborating Is The Wave Of The Future

MusicDish



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Digital Music News  @  About.com


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Google Launches Music Discovery Service

Christian Science Monitor   -   "Music discovery tool which helps users dig up information on their favorite bands"


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A new technique identifies versions of the same song - PhysOrg

"A team of researchers from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF, Spain) has developed a system to identify common patterns in versions of songs, which will help to quantify the similarity of musical pieces"


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Secret Copyright Treaty  Leaks  -  It's Bad. Very Bad

BoingBoing   -   ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material."  | 
This means no more  "Flickr or YouTube or Blogger" 


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You Tube  Listening  Room




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Listening Theme   -   Keyboard Thunder   -   Multiple Pianos 


 
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The Gershwin Piano Quartet   -   Trailer (HD)  -  These Guys Are Fun!   

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The Gershwin Piano Quartet features 4 pianists on 4 grand pianos, playing, arranging and improvising on works by Gershwin, Ravel, Stravinsky, Piazzolla and Porter." 


Gershwin:  An American In Paris   |  


Gershwin: I Got Rhythm   |    Check out related playlist    |  




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The 5 Browns
   -   5 pianos   -  The Browns In Blue:  An Introduction    -   the5browns.com

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The piano-playing family talk about how they got their start, and what they're up to next. For more sports, music & news, be sure to tune in to Park City Television at www.parkcity.tv." 


The 5 Browns - Flight of the Bumble Bee     |    The 5 Browns - Rhapsody in Blue   |   

The 5 Browns - In the Hall of the Mountain King   |    The 5 Browns - The Firebird    |  

The 5 Browns - Scenes from "West Side Story"    |    The 5 Browns - Simple Gifts/Going Home     |  

The 5 Browns;Chris Botti - Home Blues from An American In Paris      |    

The 5 Browns - 18th Variation from Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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The Five Browns: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6    |   


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These two performers have so much fun playing together;
creative filming adds to the fun!



"Reimagine" Trailer #1 (Anderson & Roe Piano Duo)

HD: Mozart's SONATA for TWO PIANOS - Anderson & Roe 

Anderson & Roe Piano Duet play "BLUE DANUBE FANTASY" 

Anderson & Roe Piano Duo play "THE SWAN"

STAR WARS - Cantina Band on Two Pianos - Anderson & Roe

STAR WARS - "March of the Ewoks" on Two Pianos - Anderson & Roe

STAR WARS - "Imperial March" on two pianos (and then some)

STAR WARS - "Force Theme" on Two Pianos - Anderson & Roe

PARANOID ANDROID: Anderson & Roe Piano Duo

Greg Anderson and Qing Jiang play Sabre Dance

Greg Anderson plays Ligeti Etude 13: "The Devil's Staircase"




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Verbier Festival - 8 Pianos 




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Here is a very beautiful piano piece  -  Piano Prelude No. 1 By M. Seltenreich 

@  YouTube   -   Performed by the young pianist Lahav Shani


Composers,  please note how the piece develops its ideas.  From the 4-note motif
that repeats with variations, to the opening slow melody that repeats with changes,
to the LH ostinato, abrupt key changes that return quickly to the main key, 
sudden & dramatic texture changes that quickly return to the main ideas. 
An excellent example of how to create music continuity and have elements of contrast.




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Next Theme:  Improvisation Battle



Upcoming Themes"    |    Berklee College Concerts    |  



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Learn  About  Songwriting  From  The  Pros





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Great Songwriters not only have great mastery of the elements of music and musicianship
 
They have the gift of creating a magic world of storytelling through the art of music


Articles By:   John Braheny, Jason Blume, Jai Josefs, Peter & Pat Luboff,  Ralph Murphy (ASCAP),
Ken Hill    (MusicBizAcademy), Mara  (MusicBizAcademy), Songwriter Resource Network, Christopher Knab,






Songwriting Tips From the Pros
Ten Tips for Building Stronger Songs



21 Songwriting Tips
How To Write A Song



18 More Songwriting Tips
Visualizing a Hit



Writing Lyrics : Song Titles
Writing Lyrics - Keeping it Simple



Rewriting Lyrics
The Song As A Script



Write Really Great Lyrics
The Basic Forms



Choosing a Form
Developing Successful Song Stuctures



Song Construction:  Repetition
Song Dynamics: Getting Their Attention



Hooks
Song Construction: Hooks



Drawing Maximum Attention To Your Hook
Song: Chorus Construction



Chorus Construction
Pre-Choruses & Bridges



Song: Chorus Construction
The Importance of Contrast



A Good Melody is Like Sex
Top Songs of the 20th Century



Rewriting: Your Essential Tool Kit
Clichés



Alan & Marylin Bergman On Songwriting: Part 1
Overcoming "Writer's Assumption



The 7:00 A.M. Rule
Know Your Own Strengths



The Checklist
Coping with Stage Fright



What Publishers Really Want
Writing For Specialty Markets



Writing on Assignment
Thoughts for the Aspiring Musician



What You Should Know About Your Fans
Stairway to Your First Cut



The Mighty Pronoun: The Little Big Word
Your Demos: Dress Them for Success



Your First Recording Session
Having Two Ears



Mastering Your Music
Cutting a 'Hot' CD



Top Ten Graphic Tips for Designing CDs
Take Control of Your Career Now



Sell Your CDs Online
How to Write a Press Release



Copyright and Songwriting Basics
7 Steps to a Successful Audition



So You Want to Quit Your Day Job?
Great American Song Contest



How to Write an Artist Biography: A Bio Made Simple
Income & Expenses In Music Career



10 Reasons Why Most Demos are Rejected
The "Creative" You and the "Business" You



Performance Contracts
Guerrilla Marketing Tips



Tax Tips for Musicians
Finding A Manager



Music Business Article Index
Ten Tips for Developing Musicians



Are You Ready? Are You *Really* Ready?




10 Essential Tips for Making a Living with Your Music

How and Why Major Labels and Independent Labels Work Together

35 Tips for Self-Management as a Musician

25 Things to Remember About Record Distribution

Planning Your Music Career: Part 1

10 'Reality Sandwiches' For The Independent Musician

Set Goals: Your Rockstardom Wasn't Built in a Day

Re-Thinking Your Image: Creating a Signature Style

Stop Burning Bridges... or Your Career Might Go Up in Flames

Your Speaking Skills Can Make You a Better Performer

Co-Writing w Established Songwriters

Getting Heard In A "No Unsolicited Material" World

10 Things to Do Before You Release Your Album

Becoming A 'Priority' At A Record Label

How to Help the Music Industry Take You Seriously

The X Factor: What is it and do YOU have "IT"?

Music Business Internships Do's and Don'ts

How to Reduce Your CD Manufacturing Costs

An Introduction to the FourFront Music Marketing Concept
  




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Comping Tutorials For Piano and Guitar
     

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Musicology is the scholarly study of music.   Discover, in-depth , all of the many aspects of music 


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What Are The Thoughts , Patterns , Ideas ,  Music Language ,  Forms , Feelings ...etc   
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Music Composition   @   Wikipedia , The Free Encyclopedia
 

"A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic  event (a live performance or recorded track). If composed before being performed, music can be performed  from memory, through written musical notation, or through a combination of both. Compositions comprise musical elements, which vary widely from person to person and between cultures. Improvi - sation is the act of composing immediately before or during the performance, assembling musical elements "spontaneously and eruptedly."


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       The third edition of this high successful orchestration text follows the approach established in its innovative predecessor: Learning orchestration is best achieved through familiarity with the orchestral literature; this familiarity is most effectively accomplished from the music notation in combination with the recorded sound. The text has been revised to reflect the most informed reactions to the first and second editions, as well as Professor Adler's revisions. 

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    Professor Emeritus at the Eastman School of Music, is currently teaching at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. He has held the title of visiting professor at many schools throughout the country and abroad, giving master classes in composition, orchestration, and conducting. Professor Adler has gained considerable recognition as a composer (his compositions have been performed by such ensembles as the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony), and has received numerous awards and grants. He has also been guest conductor for many prominent symphony orchestras.
     

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       Music theory is often seen as unnecessary and boring to even the most musically inclined persons. Many see it as a hindrance to their natural creativity. However, without a sense of music theory, nobody will progress from playing music, to understanding and even writing music. I took a music theory class in college and used a textbook that tried to say the same things that Miller says, only the textbook was far more confusing. I think this book would actually make a fine textbook for an "Intro to Music Theory" class. He covers most basic topics, even assuming that the reader has no music knowledge. This is good for beginners, but for me it meant that I only skimmed the first few chapters. He does cover more advanced topics such as harmony, counterpoint, transcribing from audio, and transposing. At the end of each chapter, he has quizzes to review and test what was learned in the previous chapter. He includes most important topics in music theory, including scales, pitches, rhythm, melodies, chords, chord progressions, phrases, transcribing, arranging, writing lead sheets, and performing. 
     

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    Review By Bernard Brandt

       "Hearing and Writing Music", by Ron Gorow, is a superb book. It makes a simple and elegant presentation of the internal process by which we hear sounds and music, how we recognize intervals, chords, melody, harmony, counterpoint, and the timbre of instrumentation/ orchestration, how we can develop the skills of listening, auditory memory and imagination, and how to use these skills to hear and to write down music of any sort. 

       The hallmark of an expert is the ability to explain the basics of his field as simply as possible. By that standard, Mr. Gorow has proven his expertise in this book. I note that the other reviews, both for Amazon and in musical journals, tend to limit the importance of "Hearing and Writing Music" to ear training. I believe that Mr. Gorow's book is valuable for much more than ear training. I have studied it, and as a result of that study, I believe that my auditory memory and imagination and my abilities in score reading have improved enormously.

      Further, I have been able to use the skills in this book to transcribe melodies, harmonies and counterpoint almost effortlessly, both those that I have heard, and those which existed only in my imagination. This book has opened many doors for me. I believe that it can do so for many others.

       On a personal note, for the last 30 years, I have been able to hear and compose music in my imagination. Unfortunately, I have been almost exclusively self-taught, and I despaired of ever being able