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The following ideas are places to take your seeking mind... Places that might generate your own music creation projects. With each of the following links ,  read each result with an open mind to the collective experience of the musician community you are part of
 
 

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The following ideas are places to take your seeking mind

 
A music tone is all about vibration  |  YouTube Experience Music Project  |  YouTube
Influence of music on sexual experiences Music and emotion  |  YouTube
Articles: transformation powers of music  | YouTube Music as a social experiment  |  YouTube
Thoughts and feelings expressed in music Visualizing the music you hear
Creating music with no awareness of a beat Music as therapy
Music synesthesia  |  YouTube Music as virtual worlds  |  YouTube
Music as consciousness  |  YouTube Music as collaboration  |  YouTube
Life and death experiences in music  | YouTube Do men listen to music differently than women?
Music as a religion  |  YouTube Composing a musical prayer  |  YouTube
Role of dissonance in music  |  YouTube Elements of harmony in music  |  YouTube
Buildup & release of tension in music  | YouTube Music and spirituality  |  YouTube
Music as an emotional orgy Music as an actors workshop  |  YouTube
Music as a dramatic event  |  YouTube Awareness of style in composer's music?  | YouTube
Listening with full powers of concentration  |  YouTube Listening with a quiet mind  |  YouTube
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Ability to hear 3 or more melodies together  & experiencing them  as one unified moment  |  YouTube
 
 
Listening to a piece of music 3 times , attempting to hear a different awareness of the notes each time

   
Listen to a recording. Describe portions of it , then all of it to a friend  |  YouTube

   
Does your level of musicianship at your instrument affect the quality or charcter of your listening experience?  | YouTube

 
 
Can a performer's playing technique give the feeling of deep resonance , vibrant awareness of the instrument's timbre , the illusion of a perfect tone?  |  YouTube

   
3 or more musicians , each with an instrument , improvise a piece that only has dimension of rhythm , soloing , silencing , blocks of sound , dynamic ranges , feeling your own moments while listening and co-creating with the others.

   
Stretching the performance limits of your musical instrument  |  YouTube

 
Experiencing jazz from the inside  |  YouTube

 
   
Set up a music collaboration.  How will it be diferent than other performances?  |  YouTube
 
 
Pulsating , throbbing , in your face  music event comprise piece of music  |  YouTube

   
Superimpose church modal melodies at various entry times , each on a different chromatic tone. Use men's voices for this priestly convocation  |  YouTube
 
 
Does a music genre lose its identity when it fused with another?  |  YouTube
 
 
An entire composition is 2 performers echoing each other's musical statement , however each echo is slightly different  |  YouTube

   
Musicians are equally spread throughout the audience. The piece is composed spacially. Thus no 2 listeners will have the same experience

   
Create a piece in which silences are the main creative element. Actual silence , register silence , instrument type silence , harmonic silence , long periods of dead silence , occasional deafening silence , timbre shocks , Baby< it's going to be a wild ride!  |  YouTube

   
Understanding music structure changes the ways you perform music

   
Recording music without an audience:  bringing out your best performance

   
Performing music using your body gestures to emphasize music's meaning  |  YouTube
 
 
Articles: healing power of music for the spirit and body  |  YouTube

   
Feelings and thoughts a musician feels while playing a live concert
 
 
Deep listening to music can give you an out of body experience
 
 
Performing music instrument with a pure tone  |  YouTube
 
 
Music consciousness as a trance-like state  |  YouTube

   
Performing an entire piece of music with eyes closed
 
 
The effect of acoustics on the listening experience  |  YouTube
 
 
Truth & meaning of life through music  |  YouTube

   
Experiencing profound connection with the music  |  YouTube
 
 
Music with simple textures vs complex textures  |  YouTube
 
 
Composition as an experiment in musical dimensions

 



 
The purpose of the links above is stretch the limits of your music creativity. Music is about connecting with the minds , ears & hearts of your fellow musicians. 

"Music composition processes"  &  "generating new experiences" ,  are activities that convey a mission of deeper understanding of music creation.

Dimensions of music  -  levels of emotion  -  musical architectures... Pre-composition can be quite fun!

 




       



      
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How are creative musicians getting by during this financial crisis?
 

Creative musicians find ways to survive during hard times
 

Musicians diversify their career skills to achieve creative freedom
 

Music communities  thrive by sharing their ideas and success
 

Creative musicians stay centered , in balance , through their passion , confidence & spirituality
 

Creative musicians live and perform together in loft communities
 

Stretch your music creativity by tearing apart your understanding of musical elements and form
 

Melodic idea tortured into an infinite series of variations!
 

Feeling the rhythmic inflections of a musical phrase
 

Performers feeling & thinking the climax points of large music forms
 

Music composition is the artful creation and destruction of musical ideas
 

Sometimes the elegance of simplicity allows a music composition to have subtle creativity and deep emotion
 

Asymmetrical music phrases , wrong notes , sudden distortion , unexpected changes of music texture
 

Flashes of music inspiration ,  intense continuity , musicians hearing and feeling each other's ideas
 

Intense understanding of musical structure allows an easy , natural flow of ideas
 

What are the values of music creation software?
 

How do you overcome composers writers block?
 

What are the qualities of daily living that best help the creative music process?
 

Music composition:  The element of surprise , the uses of silence , changes of density ,  flexible tempo , ambiguous awareness of the beat
 

Blues & Jazz artists reveal their music creation techniques
 

Composers experience the pain & surreal awareness & separateness when a music composition is completed
 

Music Composition:  The importance of random improvisation ,  maintaining musical sketches notebook , a music fragments audio archive
 

Avoid the tyranny of musical perfectionism ,  Learning to feel love for all your early composition
 

Creative musicians need the courage to feel and use all of their emotions
 

Music composition:  fusing your emotions with creative musical structure
 

The many ways creative musicians can make money
 
 
 


     



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    Hearing and Writing Music - Author: Ron Gorow
    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 to write down what I heard. Mr. Gorow's book, and my use of it, has changed all that. I have just completed the first movement of a symphonic tone poem, and I intend on continuing to compose for the rest of my life. 

       I have studied many books on music theory, and have listened to and studied many pieces of music. If I may make an analogy, my studies had formed the equivalent of a crystalline solution. "Hearing and Writing Music" was the equivalent of a seed crystal, which put everything into order, and transformed me from a listener to a composer. 

       I cannot recommend it highly enough for those who wish to become songwriters, arrangers, or composers, or those who wish to improve their skills.

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    Contents  |  Preface  |  Goals  |  A Brief History Of Jazz  |  Early Jazz  |  Big Band Jazz and Swing  |  Bebop  |  Cool Jazz  |  Hard Bop  | 
    Post Bop  |  Free Jazz and the Avant Garde  |  Fusion  |  Post Modern Jazz  |  The Present  |
     

    Jazz Fundamentals  |  Structure  |  Swing  -  Definition  -  Practicing Swing  |  Creativity  -  The Creative Process  -  Playing  |
     

    Chord/Scale Relationships  |  Basic Theory  -  Intervals  -  Major And Minor Scales  -  Chords  -  The Circle Of Fifths   |  Major Scale Harmony  -  Major Scale  -  Dorian Mode  -  Phrygian Mode  -  Lydian Mode  -  Mixolydian Mode  -  Minor Scale  -  Locrian Mode   |  Melodic Minor Harmony  -  Phrygian #6  -  Lydian Augmented  -  Lydian Dominant  -  Fifth Mode  -  Locrian #2  -  Altered Scale   |  Symmetric Scales  -  Whole Tone Scale  -  The Diminished Scales  |  Pentatonic Scales  |  Derived Scales  -  The Blues Scale  -  Minor Scales  -  Bebop Scales  -  Synthetic Scales   |  Chord/Scale Chart   | 
     

    Applying The Theory To Improvisation  |  Melodic Development  -  Pacing  -  Phrase Construction  |  Playing Changes  -  ii-V  (Major Keys  -  Minor Keys)  -  Blues  -  Rhythm Changes  -  Coltrane Changes  |  Modal Improvisation  |  Chromaticism  |  Non-tonal Improvisation  |  Free Improvisation  |
     

    Accompanying  |  Chordal Instruments  |  Chord Voicings  -   3/7 Voicings  -  Quartal Voicings  -  Polychord and Upper Structure Voicings  -  Close Position and Drop Voicings  -  Other Scale Based Voicings  |  Reharmonizing  |  Comping Rhythms   |  Bass  |  Walking Bass Lines  |  Pedal Point  |  Counterpoint  |  Other Bass Patterns  |  Drums  |  Other Instruments  | 
     

    Playing With Others  |  OrganizationDealing With Problems  |
     

    Listening Analytically  |
     

    Breaking The Rules  |
     

    Annotated Bibliography  |  Fakebooks  |  Instructional Books  |  History And Biography  |
     

    Annotated Discography  |  Basic Recommendations  |  Listing  |
     

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  • Counterpoint  |  Henry Martin
  • New Music Composition  |  David Cope


  • Making Music  |  Morton Subotnick
  • Why and How to Teach Music Composition  |  Maud Hickey


  • Introduction to music composition  |  King Palmer
  • The Twentieth-Century Composer Speaks  |  Mari Nishimura


  • A Conductor's Repertory of Chamber Music  | 
  • Tape Music Composition  |  David Keane


  • Creative Music Composition  |  Margaret Wilkins
  • Random precision  |  Igor Karaca


  • The Da Capo Catalog of Classical Music Compositions
  • Computer-Assisted Music Composition  |  Phil Winsor


  • A Basic Course in Music Composition  |  Music Library Assn
  • The materials of music composition  |  H. Owen Reed


  • Beginning Piano Compostions  |  Alana LaGrange
  • Experimental Music  |  Isaacson Lejaren


  • Music Composition and Arranging  |  Samuel Walter
  • Electronic music composition for beginners  |  Robert Train Adams 


  • Instrumental Arranging  |  Gary C White
  • Computer music compositions of the United States, 1976  |  Carol Welby


  • Writing music  |  Merle Montgomery
  • A basic course in music composition  |  Ralph Shapey


  • Composing Music with Computers, First Edition  |  Eduardo Miranda
  • Composing Music for Worship  |  John Bell


  • PC Music Composing with Cubasis VST & Notation  |  Vera Trusova
  • Composing At The Piano Early Intemrediate Level  |  Lee Evans


  • Kick-start Your Composing  |  Paul Harris
  • Composing for Chorus  |  Stephen Paulus


  • Composing With Confidence  |  Alan Meyers
  • Polyphonic Composition  |  O. Swindale


  • Composing music  |  Mary Val Marsh
  • Instrumental music  |  Music Library Assn


  • Composing Matters  |  Patrick Allen
  • Listening to Music  |  Helen MacGregor


  • Composing and Compositions with CD  |  Leni Stern
  • Composing for the Jazz Orchestra  |  U Chicago Press


  • Modern arranging technique  |  Gordon Delamont
  • Composing dance, choreographing music  |  Lifestyle Ventures


  • Composing at the Electronic Keyboard Book 2  |  Nick Haines
  • Composers and Composing  |  Judith Bailey


  • Reflections on Composing  |  Frederick Koch
  • Starter Composing Pack  |  Geoffrey Winters


  • Musical Environments  |  Richard Vella
  • Form and Method  |  Roger Reynolds


  • Composing in the Classroom|  |  David Bramhall
  • 101 Songwriting &Composing Techniques  |  Jack Weaton


  • The Pocket Guide to Harp Composing  |  D.Rees-Rohrbacher
  • Composing your own music  |  Harry W Ranks


  • Arranging & composing, for the small ensemble  |  David Baker
  • On composing music with computers  |  Lejaren Arthur Hiller


  • Composing your own music  |  Harry W Ranks
  • We Love Composing  |  Jon Raybould


  • Composing melodies  |  Carmela Mercuri
  • Composing at the keys  |  Sue Shannon
  • First steps in playing and composing  |  Satis N Coleman
  • Wareham's method for composing, & arranging  |  Duane E Wareham
  • More Songwriting and Composing Techniques  |  Peter L. Alexander
  • Composing with New Technology  |  A. Ellis
  • Fundamental principles - composing and arranging of music for the player-piano
  • Advanced Harmony, Melody and Composition  |  Paul Sturman
  • Handbell composing & arranging  |  Donald E Allured
  • The waveform music book  |  Composing, teaching, performing electronic music with the Arp 2600 synthesizer
  • What Every Musician Needs to Know About the Body  |  Barbara Conable
  • Words with Music  |  Lehman Engel
  • Making Music for the Joy Of It  |  Stephanie Judy
  • Power Tools for GarageBand  |  Francis Preve
  • Listening, Playing, Creating  |  Carolyn B. Kenny
  • Creating Professional Drum Loops  |  Ed Roscetti
  • Learn composition when creating music videos
  • Creating Four-Part Harmony  |  Lois Bock
  • The art of improvisation  |  Bob Taylor
  • Playing the Changes  |  Paul Del Nero
  • Modern Improvising and Application of Ideas to Melody  |  George Green
  • Improvising strings  |  String Letter Press
  • Improvising Jazz Piano  |  John Mehegan
  • Improvising basic blues  |  String Letter Press
  • 25 Ways to Improve Your Improvising for Guitar  |  Jay Marks
  • Improvising Jazz Bass  |  Rick Laird
  • Guitar Adlib  |  James Bryer
  • Improvising riffs and figures  |  Harold Branch
  • The chord approach to improvising for all treble clef instruments (Unknown Binding)  |  Walter Stuart
  • Improvising Jazz Lines  |  Hal Leonard
  • Triadic energy  |  Lenny Carlson
  • Jazz improvising for all bass instruments  |  Walter Stuart
  • Harmonic foundation for jazz & popular music | Jimmy Amadie
  • Improvising for all instruments  |  Vincent Geraci
  • Harmonic current theory of chord progression  | Lawrence Kaelin
  • Harmonometry, or Science of music and musical composition  |   Founded upon the natural progressions of harmonic sound
  • Bach's harmonic progressions  |  Kent Gannett
  • Creative Comping Concepts for Jazz Guitar  |  Mark Boling
  • Guide Tones for Jazz Chords, Line & Comping for Guitar  | Sid Jacobs
  • Four Part Harmony for Solo and Comping  |  Sal Salvador
  • Transcribed piano voicings  |  Jamey Aebersold
  • Keep on Comping! Basic Manual for Chord Voicing, Comping
  • & Soloing Jazz Piano
  • Quartal Harmony  |  Corey Christiansen
  • The Piano Quartet and Quintet : Style, Structure, and Scoring  | Basil Smallman
  • Keyboard Cookbook : Recipes for Playing More Than 40 Styles  |  Jana Ranson
  • The Art of Performance  |  Heinrich Schenker
  • Connecting Chords with Linear Harmony  |  Bert Ligon 
  • Reharmonization Techniques  |  Randy Felts
  • Modern Piano Playing  |  Karl Leimer
  • Style in Piano Playing  |  Peter Cooper
  • Anxiety and Musical Performance  |  Dale Reubart
  • The Art of Successful Rhythm Piano-Keyboard Playing  |  Andrew D. Gordon
  • Piano in the Rhythm Section with CD  |  Tom Rainer
  • Aspects of Stravinsky's use of rhythm after Le sacre du printemps with particular emphasis on The sonata for two pianos  |  Lloyd H Slind
  • The rhythmic way: Scales, chords and rhythms for the pianoforte  | Mary Parsons
  • Rhythm Piano - Advanced  |  Duane Shinn
  • Piano Improvisation on Rhythm and Dissonant Chords  |  Arthur: C. Rummo
  • Note Grouping  |  James Thurmond
  • The Perfect Wrong Note  |  William Westney
  • The Language of the Blues  |  Debra DeSalvo
  • The Art of the Piano  |  David Dubal
  • The Essence of Afro-Cuban Percussion and Drum Set  |  Ed Uribe
  • Rhythm & Meter Patterns  |  Gary Chaffee
  • The Rhythm Bible (Book & CD)  |  Dan Fox
  • Encyclopedia of Reading Rhythms : Text and Workbook for All Instruments  | Gary Hess 
  • The Art of Fugue  |  Joseph Kerman
  • Bebop Jazz Piano  |  John Valerio<