Did You Know: Interesting Piano Facts
The piano has been an established musical instrument in homes and concert halls around the world for decades. It is popular because of its accessibility … Read more
The piano has been an established musical instrument in homes and concert halls around the world for decades. It is popular because of its accessibility … Read more
Perhaps I could begin by saying that there is no single, right way to compose your own music. Nothing other than your ambitions dictates how … Read more
In many respects, there are no hard and fast rules that dictate how you compose music. You certainly do not need to have formally studied … Read more
Classical music comes in many different and diverse styles. From the Medieval to the present day, music covers a huge range of exciting composers and … Read more
The word ‘diatonic’ can be used to describe both scales and harmony. Scales are considered to be a series of single notes moving either up … Read more
Musical Composition for Beginners Musical composition is a slightly odd area of musical study in as much as it usually requires a method of notation … Read more
It is not uncommon to see images of composers of the past sitting proudly beside their harpsichords, organs or pianos with manuscript paper littered around … Read more
The ‘mash-up’ and the ‘re-mix’ are now commonplace terms in the English language. Hard as it may be to believe, Classical music is not immune … Read more
In my experience, as a performing musician and especially as a composer, it is almost impossible not to draw some inspiration from the sounds of … Read more
The idea of many tonal pieces of music, or compositions that are written in a given ‘key’, is for the composer to ‘modulate’ during the … Read more
This period in western Classical musical history includes an almost bewildering range of music that cannot be considered in its entirety in this brief article. … Read more
This question is one that could be asked of many instruments and the answer is almost always another question. To what standard? The piano, as … Read more
To learn an instrument, whether piano or another instrument does not have one universal approach or method. There are often similarities between teaching and learning … Read more
Music like painting, sculpture, dance, literature and theatre are all vital members of the family we broadly title The Arts. The ‘art’ of musical composition … Read more
When we are describing music there are often several categories of description that are commonly used. These include but are not limited to, melody, harmony, … Read more