We look at Ligeti’s famous composition in order to decide how much, or how little, the use of music’s foundational parameters really matter in composing.
Tag: serialism
On Alban Berg’s Great Musical Palindrome
Hidden in plain sight in a second act interlude of Berg’s monumental Lulu, sits a full orchestra musical palindrome unlike anything in music history.
3 Atonal Techniques for Adventurous Songwriters
Inspired by Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, here are three ways to use atonal composition techniques in your pop music-making!
How Does Arvo Pärt Create His Enormously Emotive Music? Tintinnabuli.
+ Join our new email magazine, Soundfly Weekly, a weekly review of the best in music learning…
14 of the Most Commonly Confused Terms in Music and Audio
Once upon a time, remixing a song meant actually redoing the mix. Many vintage consoles (some Neve 80-series,…
4 Different Ways to Start a Musical Sentence
When you’re composing music, you kind of have to split yourself into a bunch of…