Eric Gould – Creative Strategies for Composition Beyond Style
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One of the most important things that effective composers learn over time is how their own creative process works. Creative Strategies for Composition Beyond Style teaches
Creative Strategies for Composition Beyond Style
One of the most important things that effective composers learn over time is how their own creative process works. Creative Strategies for Composition Beyond Style teaches you how to develop upon virtually any kernel of an idea, from a melodic fragment to a catchy rhythm or phrase or a nice chord. And, ultimately, it will provide you with a much greater level of comfort in undertaking new creative projects. Each new lesson explores an approach to composing and how it works, complete with examples, composer perspectives, and more.
This music composition course spotlights a very diverse pool of creative artists, from James Brown to Johannes Brahms, Sting to Herbie Hancock, and from Bach to Beyonce. You will complete exercises that result in short work samples that reinforce the processes you are learning—exercises that are not driven by stylistic constraints or specific harmonies, but by sets of parameters intended to guide the creative process. Upon completion of this course, you will have learned the tools and methods necessary in helping to harness your creativity.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Generate templates for sketching out ideas
- Practice options and strategies for composition beginning with a bass progression
- Use rhythmic patterns to help generate musical ideas
- Evaluate options for harmonizing music or creating a harmonic progression
- Employ methods for expanding harmonic progressions
- Identify strategies for creating effective transitions within a piece
- Make aesthetic and practical choices about instrumentation
- Apply self-evaluation of work and process
Syllabus
Lesson 1 Basic Course Premises/Establishing a Baseline
Lesson 2 Overview of the Compositional Process
Lesson 3 Project Decisions and Templates for Sketching
Lesson 4 Composing “From the Bottom Up”
Lesson 5 Composing “From the Top Down”
Lesson 6 Using Rhythm as a Source
Lesson 7 Creating and Expanding Harmonic Progressions
Lesson 8 Developing Melodic Materials From a Harmonic Progression
Lesson 9 Conceiving Form
Lesson 10 Transition
Lesson 11 Orchestration and Arranging
Lesson 12 Final Project
Requirements
Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements
Completion of Music Theory 201 and Getting Inside Harmony 2 or Arranging: Contemporary Styles and Music Theory and Composition 1 or equivalent knowledge and experience is required.
You should have:
- basic keyboard or guitar skills
- fundamental working knowledge of harmony and chord/scale relationships, including an understanding of seventh chords, tensions, and associated scales
You should be able to:
- harmonize and write a melody over a set of harmonies
- construct harmonies for a given bass progression
- use notation software to generate PDF files
- use audio recording/editing software to generate MP3 files
Required Textbook(s)
- None required
Software Requirements
- Audio-editing software for generating MP3 files (Audacity, GarageBand, etc.)
- Notation software that is capable of generating PDF files (MuseScore, Finale NotePad, etc.)
General Course Requirements
Below are the minimum requirements to access the course environment and participate in live chats. Please make sure to also check the Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements section above, and ensure your computer meets or exceeds the minimum system requirements for all software needed for your course.
Mac Users
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite or higher
PC Users
- Windows 7 or higher
All Users
- Latest version of Google Chrome
- Zoom meeting software (available in the course when joining your first chat)
- Webcam
- Speakers or headphones
- External or internal Microphone
- Broadband Internet connection
Instructors
Author & Instructor
Eric Gould is the former chair of the Jazz Composition Department at Berklee. He has taught at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the College of Wooster, and has conducted numerous workshops, residencies, and classes, in addition to private instruction, festival organization, and arts management consultation. He has performed and recorded in collaboration with world-renowned instrumentalists such as Jimmy Heath, Ron Carter, James Newton, Bobby Watson, Antonio Hart, Winard Harper, Cindy Blackman, and Terri Lynne Carrington, in addition to leading his own trio.
He has served as a consultant for the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz National Curriculum Project, and as an advisory panelist for the National Jazz Service Organization, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Cleveland Music School Settlement. He holds a Master of Music degree in Composition from Cleveland State University, where he studied with Edwin London, Rudolph Bubalo, P.Q. Phan, and Andrew Rindfleisch.
What’s Next?
When taken for credit, Creative Strategies for Composition Beyond Style can be applied towards these associated programs:
Associated Certificate Programs
- General Music Studies Professional Certificate
- General Music Studies Advanced Professional Certificate
Associated Degree Majors
- Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition for Film, TV, and Games
- Bachelor’s Degree in Songwriting
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