Entries tagged with “music composition” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

You're invited by a whacko group of entrepreneurs, developers, and artists in the music industry to fill out a survey about music creativity software, with a chance to win a prize.

Yes. Software can help a musician uncover talent he doesn't realize he has.

Learning to write good melodies is a great place to start. Let another composer provide the chord progressions and accompaniment for you, so that you can focus on nothing but a new melody.

This first O'Reilly Digital Media blog by a 14-year veteran developer of musician software invites you to meet the musicians hiding in your computer, ready to help you compose and arrange your own music.

As part of today's feature article on making movies out of still photos, Michael W. and Debra Jean Dean whipped up this funny demonstration of good and bad background music. It contains five brief examples. See if you can figure out why each helps or hurts the presentation. Debra Jean reveals the answer after each segment. I burst out laughing...

For almost a century, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of Orchestration has shown composers the secrets of arranging music for orchestral instruments. Thanks to Garritan's new Flash-based version, you can now see and hear the examples play back for free. About a year ago, composer Greg Moore recommended I check out the work sound designer Gary Garritan was doing, including his...