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Assignment 5

Posted on 06/05/2013 by otolio

(Extracts from my diary while writing this piece) I’ve been working with several ideas and listening to some popular songs that used a variety of chords. So what did I start with? I went back to two pieces I’ve always … Continue reading →

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Hlavolam 3.v-13

Posted on 04/05/2013 by otolio

Sometimes I wonder why I don’t write so many songs nowadays. There are quite a few reasons. Lack of time is one. Related to that is the fact I used to write the lyrics & chords and record them straight … Continue reading →

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Project 14

Posted on 23/04/2013 by otolio

Improvisation on a dominant This one is strongly based on a motif I’m trying my little parrot to learn (abc-ace… – so far unsuccessfully). It begins with just an insinuation of the chord (a 9th one on the first bar, … Continue reading →

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Project 13 – cadences

Posted on 11/04/2013 by otolio

Project 13-a: F major For the first cadence, I started with a mere alternation of voices, in a melismatic way, then to aim to the chord of tonic by adding an interval to the chord of dominant in each new … Continue reading →

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“Hlavolam” ostinato

Posted on 27/01/2013 by otolio

This is a side work, not direct part of my course (click here for the audio). The story of it is as follows: after listening to medieval music for almost a whole weekend, I found myself writing vocal music. I … Continue reading →

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During my last piano lesson, my friend & teacher Sergey asked me to play one piece from Béla Bartók’s Mikrokosmos in which one hand plays in F Maj and the other one in F min, exchanging their roles afterwards. I … Continue reading →

Posted on 19/10/2012 by otolio | Leave a comment