Composing with a 5 Note Pitch Set - Music Composition

How to write a piece of music with only five notes. This music composition lesson takes a set of five notes and considers ideas for composing or improvising a piece based on those notes. We then explore how the Australian composer, Peter Sculthorpe uses this pitch set as the basis for a short piano piece. Having seen how the pitch set is used and repeated with different rhythms we examine other features of Sculthorpe’s piece such as the use of pedal and low dynamics, as well as his permutations of the five note set. This video offers inspiration to composers.
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🕘 Timestamps
0:00 - Introduction to composing with a five note pitch set
1:59 - Choosing five notes and thinking about harmony
3:50 - Using your five notes
5:33 - Adding rhythmic life and atmosphere
8:29 - Other examples
10:46 - Conclusion
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[@RonSwansonIsMyGod]

Yes, the whole "creative limitation" thing. Awesome. Doing my composition degree my comp teacher had me do a piece like this using only 4; A, C, F#, G#. It's my favorite piece I wrote in the course of my degree.

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The creative limitation issue can give rise to great imagination.

[@theoqudatq2150]

Fantastic lesson! More content on basis of composition, please!

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😀

[@OfficialDanieleGottardo]

What a nice subset from the hexatonic collection

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Absolutely

[@davidwhite2949]

Sort of tone rows applied to the pentatonic scale.
I like this, cinematic.

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It offers many opportunities

[@jarodvmusic]

Very different from the usual style on this channel. I like it, and I am glad you discussed and presented how Peter uses the pitch set. I like the sound of how he arranged them, has a nice and definitely unique sound. Thanks for the breakdown.

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A pleasure

[@patrickemmanuvela957]

Its really helpfulful Garath, Needed more videos based on Compositions Thank you :)

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Excellent.

[@Flatscores]

Of course if you free the set from specific pitches and just think of it as a set of relations you can employ all the standard serial procedures: transpose, rotate, invert, retrograde, invert & retrograde, have several statements at the same time or interwoven, and combinations thereof, etc.

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[@matthijshebly]

Delightful. Thank you.

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A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

[@benasaro1043]

Thank you for this; I've always been a fan of the idea of 'triad plus one', but this looks like it will lead to a fun rabbit hole!

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Go for it!

[@jayducharme]

Fascinating. I'd never heard of Sculthorpe. I'm going to go check him out.

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Very interesting composer.

[@freddecker2407]

Haunting!

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😀

[@unknownentrappment_ed3522]

Thank you sir 🙏

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A pleasure

[@peterdilworth3110]

such a fun exercise!

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Absolutely

[@alandenton2973]

It does evoke snow rather well I think (perhaps I'm susceptible to suggestion).

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Excellent

[@Szhihihihihihi]

Thanks !

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A pleasure. Much more at www.mmcourses.co.uk

[@lawrencetaylor4101]

Merci

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😀

[@yoavshati]

Limited range and notes can also be good for writing easy pieces for beginner players (not really for piano)

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True

[@GhostRoaster29]

Can you do a video on quartal and quintal harmony and the different colors that can be produced?

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Good idea

[@evelyneduval6441]

Thank you for this inspiring video, opening new horizons...far away from Bach chorales.

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Glad it’s useful

[@SouleymaneSidibe-jg1be]

How to pickup other 5 notes please?

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Sure you could choose your own set of notes

[@ramonacosta2647]

You could randomly select them.

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Absolutely

[@SouleymaneSidibe-jg1be]

Thank you very much 🔥🔥🔥

[@povilasl5383]

I would roll one dice 2 times and if you get 1 and 3 u pick C and D and then roll 2 dice 3 times and the sum of both dice numbers and pick notes starting from C that way

[@simongross3122]

Sounds creepy

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