Top 13 Tips on A Successful Performer- Composer Relationship As a young college composer, I was often asked to create pieces for my eager colleagues. Happily I would slave a semester away on a composition, only to see the confused faces of the performers when I excitedly handed them my carefully scrawled pages. "Uh, er...Thanks," they would say....then about a week later, they would let me know the piece was "too hard" and they couldn't fit it in this semester, with the exams, juries, and Phi Mu Alpha keg parties coming up. After piling up a dozen rejected pieces, I began developing questions that would help me get to KNOW the performer . QUESTIONS YOU SHOULD ASK BEFORE YOU WRITE A SINGLE NOTE: 1) Do you have a recording or upcoming recital I can hear to listen to you perform? 2) What length of composition can you fit into your schedule? (I recommend starting SHORT with a new performance relationship.) 3) What styles of music do you prefer to per...

At first glance, the tambourine may seem like a simple instrument. A single headed drum with jingles around its perimeter, the tambourine is one percussion instrument that can be found throughout the world, from North America to the Middle East . The most basic tambourine technique involves shaking the instrument from side to side, sometimes striking the hand. In a rock or pop band, the tambourine often keeps the same strict pattern throughout each song, either keeping up a steady stream of eighth notes or sixteenth notes , or falling on beats two and four. In some types of music, the tambourine may be struck on each beat or on beats one and three. In all of these more popular cases, the purpose of the tambourine is to keep the beat and encourage the audience to clap in time to the music. PHOTO: svenko.net The tambourine roll can be executed a number of ways. The percussion player may flick their wrist back and forth rapidly creating a stream of thirty-second notes or ...

Creation Electronic is a sonic exploration of creation and procreation within the contextual folds of sound synthesis. Creation Electronic explores the solely sonic tale of the creation of the world and its eventual demise focusing on the unique juxtaposition of ambient and the african music diaspora. Originally created for and performed by the Millikin University Women's Choir and Millikin University Percussion ensemble for the multimedia oratorio Creation. credits PERFORM CREATION Download FREE Scores/Click Tracks: http://imslp.org/wiki/Creation_Oratorio_%28Young,_Sabrina_Pena%29 Purchase the instrumental soundtrack and support more great classical music : http://sabrinapenayoung.bandcamp.com/album/creation-electronic Composed by Sabrina Pena Young, award-winning composer of Libertaria: The Virtual Opera. Young's works have been performed in Europa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. Her works have been called "groundbreaking", "marve...