Lessons with Chicorelli.C

Alright! Let's begin with something you've already done, and an idea of something you'd like to work on. Just post up something you've written recently, and I'll take a listen.

~CDR

First of all, Thank you very much for accepting me as a student, Christopher Dunn-Rankin.

I am confident these lessons will be a valuable source of guidance and knowlagde that will help me manifest and notate musical creativity.

You should know I am a new composer and while inside my mind I have a few entire movements and pieces composed , the problem for me is the knowledge of how to notated my ideas. NOTATION !!

I have been trying to notate anything i hear lately to get practice but i don't know about all the expression and technique markings, tempo ect.. markings and language really.

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This is my first official composition for classical guitar.

Take a listen and enjoy!

YouTube - Comp. No.1 For Classical Guitar-Movement No. 1- Chicorelli.C

You should check out the preliminary score, i have a jpg. file to big for an attachment

My first response to the notational stuff is that while I can certainly go through notation as we go through music, the best way of learning comprehensive notational practice is to get a sourcebook on music engraving. Music engraving was a required part of my college degree, and while most books focus on either the classical standard or a particular house-style of engraving, they provide a very good foundation for a) accurate and clear notation and b) altering said notation to your own purposes. I recommend The Art of Music Engraving and Processing by Ted Ross. It's got everything in it.

I'll listen to you piece later today and get back to you by tomorrow.

Thanks Allot CDR!

Was this piece that you posted notated at all, or was it just composed by brain?

I notated it after i composed it in mind and guitar, some minor conflicts exist between the score and music, my plan is , to finish and polish every detail to this piece and then notate the final score, so everything is perfect.

My first reaction to the score is that you can develop this more. You have these themes that recur in the exact same way, or nearly so. There is one section where you have an actual development going on, but the theme can be treated and expanded much farther. Do you have any ideas of how to do that?

You are talking about the musical themes themselves, you mean developing a part to become more complicated or interesting correct?

I do, know how to do this and i feel that even though when themes repeat in this piece they are slightly altered and stay interesting, on the other hand there is allot of room for expansion or variation of these themes I Agree.

You are talking about the musical themes themselves, you mean developing a part to become more complicated or interesting correct?

I do, know how to do this and i feel that even though when themes repeat in this piece they are slightly altered and stay interesting, on the other hand there is allot of room for expansion or variation of these themes I Agree.

I agree that when the themes are restated they are altered enough to keep them interesting. I'm talking almost about micro-development; that is, taking a small motif from a theme and developing it into a section all of its own.

Oh i see. interesting , Micro-development. that is a nice concept

It's just my own word for taking development from a small motif. Beethoven does it in the 5th - da-da-da-DUM... - that's the motif. And then it goes through so many transpositions, augmentations, etc...

Movement 2 is manifesting and soon I will figure out those last 2 details of movement one i will take your suggestions into consideration. I will post the stats of the mov.2 when and see what you think. i might have 2 guitars in this one and mabey.. a piano. but maybe

Sure thing - just let me know when you want to go over it.