The Best Approach to Music Composition: Learning from the Great Composers

Exploring examples from the great composers in classical and modern music history to talk about simplicity and complexity, and the best approach to music composition.
As a contemporary composer, should you have a more modest discourse or use complexity to have an access to a wider palette of colours? How did composers like Mozart, Wagner, Debussy, Stravinsky and Pärt approach both of these concepts? Is there really one style that is better than the other? How does contemporary composers like Hans Zimmer, Philip Glass, but also contemporary metal bands like Polyphia or Animal as Leaders distinguish themselves from others? All questions answered (hopefully) in this video!
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0:00 Introduction
0:46 Simplicity and complexity
2:37 Examples in music history
3:33 Mozart
4:35 Music in the 19th and 20th century
7:47 Neoclassicism
8:56 Contemporary period
9:28 What to learn from music history
10:31 What's really important?
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[@adavidcompo]

Think your music is too complex? Check out Brian Ferneyhough’s music 😅
ruclips.net/video/p8RTPYaWXj8/видео.htmlsi=HGx9GkJM2sLL48xM

[@immersivestorytelling]

Excellent video, thank you!

[@adavidcompo]

Glad you enjoyed !!

[@javierestevez9680]

thanks for the tips

[@adavidcompo]

My pleasure !

[@DavideChiarello]

Great topic!

[@adavidcompo]

Thanks a lot! Thought this could be helpful to some ☺️

[@sebastianbaumer]

Hahaha, it's GESAMTKUNSTWERK und pronounced quite a bit differently, but whatever you said there sounded absolutely awesome. Kinda like an alien trying to speak german :D.

[@adavidcompo]

😂😂 I tried to record it like 20 times and I was like I can’t do this

[@zaqareemalcolm]

i always worry about this a lot while writing, c'est un peu stressant, je veux m'améliorer mais je veux pas gâcher ma musique aussi, mais en revanche ça risque d'être trop simple pour moi 💀

[@adavidcompo]

It’s a real struggle when learning about composing!
Mon meilleur conseil : écouter de la musique, lire des partitions, ça va changer ta perspective de ce qui est facile et difficile techniquement, mais aussi au niveau du discours !

[@zaqareemalcolm]

​@@adavidcompo Merci pour votre conseil ! Ouais je dois lire plus des partitions.
Je sais pas si j'ai commis des graves erreurs dans le contrepoint, par exemple. C'est sérialisme avec une série composée au hasard, mais j'ai quand même fini par écrire trois octaves parallèles de suite.

[@adavidcompo]

Schoenberg était un fervent défenseur du contrepoint. Si tu écoutes ses œuvres atonales et sérielles ça se sent totalement !