Tag: music theory

A Day in the Life, Composition, Technique, The Music Nerds!

Sinfonia Shaping Up Nice! Or, Explorations of Hexachords

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I am just so stoked about how my new orchestral Sinfonia is shaping up! I got a lot of fascinating work done on it today… Long story short… I developed an intro theme and then broke that apart to find it was built upon 6 distinct notes (not counting a …

Composition, Performance, Teaching, The Music Nerds!, Violin

Music Nerds #2, and the Debut of “Intrepid”

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The Music Nerds Video #2 is out! Join me in exploring how and why we calculate intervals and why the relationship between two notes is so important to a music’s flow. And, on Sunday Nov 6 at 3pm in Santa Clarita, the Santa Clarita Phil will be playing a FREE …