This week, in preparation for our music based radio show, I prepared a mixtape which we will go further in depth on in the show itself. This playlist contains a number of songs that I listen to while taking part in one of the most important activities in my life: cooking. Cooking is something I do almost every day and it is very important to who I am as a person. Music is also a very important part of who I am, so it makes sense that the two...
This is another assignment that I thought would be fun for future generations of this class to participate in. There is a program available on the internet called chrome labs, which has a plethora of music based applications including beat makers and melody makers etc. For this assignment you will need to use the maximum number of bars available, (I forget whether the maximum number is 16, 18 or 20 but I believe the assignment says 20) to...
I decided to make an audio assignment because I noticed there was a considerable lack of composition based audio assignments in the assignment bank. I certainly Plan on adding more audio assignments, and I'll try to add tutorials for all of them. For this Audio Assignment you'll use any composition software (muse score, finale, etc.) and you'll make an orchestrated piece of music using exactly 3 instruments. You can have multiple parts for 1...
The Audio Assignment Reverse It Asks that you take a soundtrack form a musical and rearrange the tracks in order to create a whole new story. Many musicals begin and end in similar places musically, with the finale being a reprisal of some of the main beginning numbers of the Musical, and the case is the same for the musical I chose. The musical I chose is Parade, which tells the true story of a young Jewish man named Leo Frank who moves to...