How to Compose Music
So you want to write a piece of music? Where do you start? And then how do you carry on? How much music theory do you need to know? Or can you get away with knowing very little about music?
Tom Service offers encouragement with the help of composers Brian Irvine and Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
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Richard Strauss
Also sprach Zarathustra Op.30 [1895-6]
Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.- ORFEO.
- C878141A.
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David Byrne
High life for nine instruments
Performer: Balanescu String Quartet.- ARGO.
- 436-565-2.
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah
Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Performer: Monteverdi Chorus.- Philips.
- 434 297 2.
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Jack Hammer
Great Balls of Fire
Composer: Otis Blackwell. Performer: Jerry Lee Lewis.- Disky.
- BX999482.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in G major K.525 (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik)
Performer: Kremerata Baltica.- Nonesuch.
- 7559796332.
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Jean Sibelius
Symphony no. 5 in E flat major Op.82
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: Berliner Philharmoniker.- BPHR.
- 150071.
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Deep Purple
Smoke On The Water
- Virgin.
- VTDCD-308.
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叠别测辞苍肠茅
Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)
Performer: 叠别测辞苍肠茅.- Columbia.
- Beyhome 713.
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Hancock
Watermelon Man
Performer: Herbie Hancock.- Bluenote.
- CDP-7243 8 29331 20.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony no. 6 in F major Op.68 (Pastoral)
Conductor: David Zinman. Performer: Tonhalle-Orchester Z眉rich.- Arte Nova.
- G010000787946Q.
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脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Suite in D minor for keyboard [from "Pieces de clavecin",1687]
Performer: Karen Flint.- Plectra.
- PL21003.
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J Barry
The Beyondness of Things
Performer: John Barry.- LONDON.
- 460-009-2.
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Byrne
Road to Nowhere
Performer: Talking Heads.- DINO.
- DINCD-96.
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Steve Reich
Clapping music for 2 musicians [clapping or woodblocks]
Performer: Neil Percy. Performer: Sam Walton.- LSO Live.
- LSO5073-LP.
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Duke Ellington
Rockin in Rhythm
- Storyville.
- 1038435.
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Hiromi
Seeker
- Telarc.
- TEL 35307 02.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia in D minor K.397 for piano
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- DG.
- DG 429739 2.
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Lullaby for piano
Performer: Ivana Gavri膰.- champs hill records.
- CHRCD 119.
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Brian Irvine
Oldest Woman in Limerick
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Invocatio for string quartet
Performer: Wihan Quartet.- NIMBUS ALLIANCE.
- NI 6356.
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