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NEW BOOK - COMPOSER BOOT CAMP 101: 50 Exercises for Music Educators, Students, and Professionals

COMPOSER BOOT CAMP 101: 50 Exercises for Music Educators, Students, and Professionals It is currently available at Createspace: h ttps://www.createspace.com/6124929 Composer Boot Camp is a series of 50 exercises for educators and beginning, intermediate, and advanced musicians who want to develop their skills in composition, film music , and songwriting.  Composer Boot Camp 101 workbook is designed to help educators, students, and seasoned professionals to hone their compositional craft. There are a series of exercises, helpful tips, resources, and more to help the musician prepare a solid foundation in music composition developed by award-winning composer and music educator Sabrina Pena Young. Exercises are divided into four sections: BEGINNER LEVEL EXERCISES Appropriate for young students, adult learners, and those who do not yet read music. INTERMEDIA LEVEL EXERCISES Appropriate for high school students, music educators, college students, and musicians who

Happy Easter! Free Kindle Science Fiction Dystopian Book Today on Amazon!

Happy Easter ! THRILLING Free Kindle Science Fiction Dystopian Book Today on Amazon !  DOWNLOAD NOW! "Libertaria: Genesis is dystopian, and good at it, and that needs further examination." - J. Roseman, escapepod.org  “One of my favorite things about this story is its odd apocalyptic tone and strong sci-fi/fantasy foundation. The dark quality that comes with it is the cherry on top.” –FanboysAnonymous.com on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera  “...As a story, it is very much in line with the good-vs.-evil sci-fi tradition, with the added bonus of a plucky female heroine…There are a good many percussion effects in the opera , and its tone is primarily quite dark and sinister, very much along the lines of a contemporary video game score .”  Palm Beach Arts Paper Music Critic Greg Stepanich on Libertaria: The Virtual Opera.   In the abandoned ruins of a Nueva York dystopia, teen Libertaria escapes a horrific world of DNA testing and loneliness, only to te

Free Piano Music Download Online: Beginner Piano "In the Arms of Momma D"

Free Piano Music Download Online: Beginner Piano "In the Arms of Momma D" DOWNLOAD FOR FREE HERE Beginner piano solo Commissioned during an art auction for the Murray Art Guild in Murray, KY . The winner was a grandmother who wanted to create a work for her grandchildren, who lovingly referred to her as "Momma D". Related articles FREE MUSIC DOWNLOAD: Easy Free Piano Sheet Music Online for Beginner Piano Students Pianists at Play The Ultimate Rocket Piano Review - Does It Really Work So Great? The Wonderful Waltz, Part 2 Versatile, Fearless Charles Rosen at the Piano There's A Free Music Festival In The Desert That You Need To Know About NEW 10 Tips for Adding Music to Film, Video, and You Tube : Updated! Free music...and filling a niche This Chart Explains Why Music Services Want You To Pay Up More Eastpointe's free Music in the Plaza starts May 25

Do You Know What Bach Knew? Music Invention in the Baroque Era

Classical music from the Baroque era set the groundwork for contemporary classical music .  The Baroque Period in classical music boasted the creation of opera, the abandonment of the church modes, and new exciting musical forms like the Baroque Suite. Music from the Baroque from classical composers like Bach , Monteverdi , Strozzi, and Purcell shared several major characteristics common to all works of the Baroque period. The Baroque Era lasted from 1600-1750 (or the year that Bach died). Although many of these musical innovations occurred centuries in the past, contemporary compositions owe much to the developments of the Baroque Era. While monophony prevailed during the early Baroque period, music of the late Baroque Era embraced more complex polyphony than even the complex lines of the Renaissance. Monophony essentially involves a single line with accompaniment. Monophony prevailed in opera, however, since understanding text and drama is essential to understanding the co

NEW! How to Write an Opera Using Internet Collaboration: TED Talk

How to Write an Opera  Using Internet Collaboration: TED Talk This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. How do you stage an opera without an opera company, or singers, or a stage, or anything, really, except your own ideas? Sabrina Peña Young and many enthusiastic opera fans put together their own full opera production using crowdsourced performances and machinima: computer-generated 3-D graphics. It's how most operas might be done in the near future. Produced by Justin Bondi Productions ( http://justinbondiproductions.com ) Sabrina Peña Young composes award-winning experimental works, which have been presented at the Beijing Conservatory , the International Computer Music Conference , Miramax’s Project Greenlight , the Athena Festival , the New York International Independent Film Festival , Art Basil Miami, Turkey’s Cinema for Peace, El Instituto Cubana de la Musica, Pulsefield International Exhibition of

Buffalo Filmmakers Host Annual Local Film Competition March 21 at the Screening Room!

Buffalo Filmmakers Host Annual Local Film Competition March 21 at the Screening Room! clock Monday  at 7 PM - 9 PM pin the screening room cinema cafe Northtown Plaza Business Center 3131 Sheridan Dr, Amherst, NY MORE INFO HERE:  https://www.facebook.com/events/1731541043729138/ BM-VM has monthly meetings not only in order to meet people who love films but also who love the process of filmmaking. We hope our programming not only allows members and attendees to learn and discuss new aspects of filmmaking, but to also fire up their desire to make a film; perhaps, through networking, a filmmaker can also find kindred spirits to work together and make films. That's why every season (Sept.-June) we also have two film contests: one in October and one in March.  This will be one of your last opportunities to screen one of your films on the Screening Room's big screen . Our longtime meeting venue has been slated