About Composer Boot Camp 101 PROFESSIONAL COMPOSER COACHING PERSONALIZED FOR YOU! USE SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE to get 40% OFF: COMPNERD Have you ever wanted affordable music coaching to help you with your writing and arranging skills that is customized  to your individual strengths and weaknesses? SIGN UP FOR COMPOSER BOOT CAMP 101 NOW! In this self-paced composer intensive for musicians, educators,   students,  and composers/songwriters , you will undergo a challenging course that will stretch your current musical talents by working on developing a musical theme , learning how to arrange in several different styles, prepare and perform a work, create a legible score and parts, develop musical form , and work on orchestration and experimentation, all under the personal mentorship and direction of award-winning Composer S. Peña Young. This course will be individualized based on your current skills, interests, and ideas. I WILL HELP YOU REGAR...

What is Atonal Music ? Music Theory in a Nutshell The atonal system was a large break from the traditions of before. Western music first began with simple intervals in the time of Pythagorus . This system marked intervals like a unison and an octave as the most tonal and pleasing to the ear. In the middle ages, musicians used church modes . Monks even attributed certain religious qualities to specific music intervals like the fourth. In the Baroque Era , composers began to use what is now considered major and minor scales which escalated into the mathematical perfection or Mozart . True Western harmony was born. The 20th century saw a break from traditional Western harmony. When Arnold Schoenberg experimented with atonality, he developed a complex musical and mathematical system. Essentially, a composer would arrange the twelve notes of a scale in a specific row, and then compose using those rows (in that order alone) to eliminate any sense of tonality. Eventually composers b...

THE  AVIVA   PLAYERS   Mira J Spektor - Artistic Director & Friends   Celebrate our 40th Season with 3 Programs in 2015 At  OPERA   AMERICA  - 330, 7th Ave NYC   FRIDAY OCTOBER 16  -  7:30 pm Aviva   Players  & Downtown Music Productions present:  Songs, Piano Rags & Chamber Music Including Vocal Duets & the Piano Trio by Fanny Mendelssohn Mimi Stern-Wolfe - Music Director /Piano, Hillary Schranze - Soprano,  Darcy Dunn - Mezzo Soprano , Lynn Bechtold - Violin, Mary Wooten - Cello  WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4  -  7pm   Aviva   Players  & Bank Street Films present:  A Double Feature of Chamber  Opera  Films  Travel to the Romantic Past of 1816 in Mira J Spektor’s VILLA DIODATI   & to the Future with Sci-Fi Virtual Reality in Sabrina Pena Young’s LIBERTARIA TUESDAY DECEMBER 1  -  7:30pm Aviva ...

Contemporary Classical Composer Sabrina Pena Young Official Music Site, Filmmaker, Speaker, Writer: Libertaria: The Virtual Opera Presented at Opera A... : Libertaria: The Virtual Opera Presented at Opera America NYC November 4th WEDNESDAY  NOVEMBER 4  –  7pm   Aviva Players & Bank...