Music of the last 25 years (Australian Focus) (1 Viewer)

[what!]

What sort of composition elements are particularly in this topic? Most of the resources I have found seems to be really vague about what exactly modern Australian music is about. I am doing the core composition for Music 2, and am not sure how to best represent the topic. Can anyone help?

 

[postnatal]

haven't you heard any works by any Australian composers?

 

[sick of it]

really what you need to do is listen to Australian music from the last 25years, and analyse it.
Like musical devises and techniques and stuff.
Look at Kats-Chernin, Westlake, and Ledger.

 

[ochaguy]

Hey there,

From experience (Music 2 HSC 2009), I have many peers also struggled with finding an ""identity" that associatd their compositions with contemporary Australian music.

However, there really isn't a criteria that measures how "Australian" your piece is.

Instead, go out there and listen to as many contemporary Australian composers and do a quick analysis on the standout features of each piece.

Such details could be:

Rythmic patterns - Weird time signatures, Synchopated rythms, free rythms,
Combination of tone colours - colour chords, unconventional harmonies, polychords,
FUSION music - Combining music from different cultures and background,
Structure - Conventional structure with chorus, through composed
Timbre - Unconventional playing techniques

The key in creating a successful composition for this section is taking INSPIRATION from Australian composers and DEVELOPING and REINTERPRETING these details.

Hope this reply has been of some help to you.

 

[kyokaku92]

Yeah, I've been having this same problem with my composition (piano trio). Too worried my piece is too straightforward and not enough complex rhythmic/melodic structures, I've just taken one idea and expanded it.
The funny thing my teacher said is I've blended some Asian (Japanese?) music with Debussy's music (Images). Very interesting combination.