Some of the contents of the pages on this site are Copyright © 2016 NJH Music | [Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: The composers view
'The Composers view' attracted my interest. In an earlier list there was some discussion re: composers and instrumentation issues around 'creative restriction'. I would be interested in hearing a bit more around re: the comment "So what I am really saying is that the composers ideas when he is writing for band must be modified to the type and numbers of instruments in the band set up. This sometimes leads to muddy harmonies or bored players but that's the way it is." I would think that in composition being a creative form that when setting out to compose for brass band that the 'modifying .the composers ideas' is really saying the band instrumentation somehow causes a less than perfect composition. Given composition is a creative art, I would have thought it would only be the boundries of the composers creativity that limits - not the instrumentation. Per a previous email I had posted to the list - their are only a limited number of notes in the scale and chord structures, however we seem to have been able to perform wonders with the combination of chord and moving melody over time. I don't think we've exhausted the creative output of our composers to write for the idiom - perhaps we should push them harder to break the boundries of chord structure and melody creation within the 'constraints'. Robin McCubbin Weston Silver Band Canada --
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