FAQs

COMPOSING DETAILS

The impetus is to encourage youth to compose - often!

Imagination is a key spark to a well rounded music education.

BAROQUE INSPIRED

Compositions must be baroque inspired. This could be as simple as basing the work on a Baroque dance movement - think about accents, meter, form. It could also be inspired by the type of ornamentation that one finds in baroque-era repertoire.

we will post more ideas to get started as the summer evolves?

It all begins with an idea.

Baroque Inspired -

Either:

clear reference to an Anna Magdalena Bach movement;

Toccata style;

Contrapuntal writing;

Improvisatory style;

Baroque- ornamentation

The key is that the student becomes immersed in a baroque-inspired musical idea and extrapolates their own imaginative creativity based upon that inspiration.