Thursday, February 19, 2015

Hello Everyone!

Since I'm a bit late to class so to speak, I wanted to introduce myself to you all. For those of you who haven't met me yet, my name is Will Stackpole and I'll be the teaching assistant for HMU310. What this means essentially is that I'll be acting as the moderator for our blog. A bit about me: I graduated from Stevens in 2012 with a BA in Music & Technology. I'm a guitarist originally but have been addicted to composition since my sophomore year of college. My interest for the most part during college and since has been in composition of orchestral and chamber music. Since Stevens, I have worked as a commercial composer for television and theater and am now back in school pursuing an MM in classical composition.

 My goal over the course of the semester is to initiate and catalyze our conversations about your compositions and assignments as you upload them. I'm really excited to see the sorts of things you all come up with. I know sometimes assignments can seem like just an exercise in understanding form or something else, but I hope that everyone can still take advantage of the opportunity to create something unique and well-crafted in this context. I'm also hoping to share things I come across in my travels that you all will find interesting/ relevant and maybe even share a little of what I'm working on.

 As I mentioned before, I'm really hoping this can be more like a conversation than simply a series of responses to your submissions, so please do reply if you have something to share or add! Feedback between peers is always a good idea (as long as we remember to keep it positive and constructive). Since this is formatted as a blog, it would be great if everyone could subscribe to it so that you receive alerts when a new post is created. This way we can actually communicate in somewhat real time instead of just seeing a giant pile of new posts once a week when things get uploaded. You should be able to sign up for email alerts and/ or add the rss feed to Feedly or another reader like that.

 Some quick house keeping: please make the links in your posts clickable; it'll be much more accessible for everyone if we don't have to copy/paste a link. Also, I've been thinking of making a soundcloud account for the class that we can all link to instead of streaming from google drive and taking up your precious cloud storage. What do you think? Would that be at all easier for you? Let me know in the comments!

(I'm sorry this has turned into a book. Future posts will be more succinct, I promise!)

 Finally, if any of you have any questions during the semester please feel free to contact me via the blog or email me (willstackpole@gmail.com).

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Week 3 - Tara Annunziata

MP3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Y4MkZo4-dXTE9WZEtLdUhwcUU/view?usp=sharing

PDF
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Y4MkZo4-dXZ2pjRi1iaVVsZDQ/view?usp=sharing

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Week 3 Assignments (Miranda)

PDF - https://drive.google.com/a/stevens.edu/file/d/0B9WYkhewXUjzelZEN0w0YVNseUk/view?usp=sharing

mp3 - https://drive.google.com/a/stevens.edu/file/d/0B9WYkhewXUjzT1hLN0JpN29oVkE/view?usp=sharing

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Max Smith HW 2

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0BzZ6OPdEnIv1MnhZOEpuMU1EWm8&usp=sharing


Andy Wiggins Week 2 Homework

audio:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B367JEQBZIONQU5XbVBraUY3d3c/view?usp=sharing

pdf:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B367JEQBZIONTmFqaC1Fd05Jcjg/view?usp=sharing


Notes 02

pdf: https://drive.google.com/a/stevens.edu/file/d/0B4SrLJSmSfxrT0N2MHVlVFBkc1E/view?usp=sharing

mp3: https://drive.google.com/a/stevens.edu/file/d/0B4SrLJSmSfxrMEtUbDlPYjdjNDg/view?usp=sharing

Week #2 Assignment (Andy Waldron)

Hey everybody, here's my pdf and mp3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_W5ybJjGaf0SUo0WEtXdFVDTnM/view?usp=sharing

HW 2

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-TpuSmEYXeafmdZaDlVS0h4eWZJUEVWdFlReDlSeVdCN3hLenBHWUUySURwaEdfWlozc1U&usp=sharing

composition blog 2-Tyler Ward



hopefully this works
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw0VB7PUDkCrR283MXpIVXRSVVE&authuser=0

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw0VB7PUDkCrTUJuQl9kTEVuREE&authuser=0

Bob stuff Week 2

Hey gang, heres my stuff.
mp3
PDF
Bob

Week 2 Assignment (Zack)

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ghOTaRaxi2WGlPMmdaZGJsWGc/view?usp=sharing

MP3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ghOTaRaxi2QnNwZ291Z1N1aG8/view?usp=sharing

Week 2

Tara Annunziata

mp3
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Y4MkZo4-dXeHpIZmFOc0VLUHM/view?usp=sharing

pdf
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Y4MkZo4-dXQjNackM1VFR3NTg/view?usp=sharing

Monday, February 9, 2015

Week 2 Assignment (Courtney)

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUERi1fX1QtZjh6QWM/view?usp=sharing
WAV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUETUJNSTdnWWQ1R0k/view?usp=sharing

Week 2 Assignment (Miranda)

mp3 - https://drive.google.com/a/stevens.edu/file/d/0B9WYkhewXUjzQUlNZFlIOGRwdFE/view?usp=sharing

PDF - https://drive.google.com/a/stevens.edu/file/d/0B9WYkhewXUjzYXFwQUY4OTJnejA/view?usp=sharing


Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Bob Week 1

PDF https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B900z0uOBJj9cXV4a3JaQV9mc00/view?usp=sharing

Week 1 (Courtney)

Assignment 1:
Audio - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUEbzE4NkxxOFNwYTQ/view?usp=sharing
PDF - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUERE9WdzI5SzB3akE/view?usp=sharing

Assignment 2:
Audio - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUEQXQxVXJBdFJCWDg/view?usp=sharing
PDF - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUEVGJWT0Z4Ymg2Q3c/view?usp=sharing

Assignment 3:
Audio - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUEVUtRRHFhMVRBaWc/view?usp=sharing
PDF - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeoEaalMMUESExWT043cGFFMkk/view?usp=sharing

Andy Wiggins -- Week 1 (Assignments 1-4)

mp3
pdf

Week 1 Assignment (Zack)

PDFs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ghOTaRaxi2ZHNyRFZrdllLZjg/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ghOTaRaxi2VHd1NWxqYjVDQ3c/view?usp=sharing

MP3s:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ghOTaRaxi2eHh1Y2RhLVFiSDQ/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8ghOTaRaxi2MmlTOHFkY1hDdzQ/view?usp=sharing

Week 1 Assignment

pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4SrLJSmSfxrWnlpelVUOVRxSU0/view?usp=sharing

mp3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4SrLJSmSfxrblhLU3hjcjRZTWc/view?usp=sharing

Week 1 Assignments (1-4)

PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9WYkhewXUjzNE9PX3BGTGlhYnc/view?usp=sharing

mp3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9WYkhewXUjzNnhwWFlEOU5SX00/view?usp=sharing

If you're having trouble creating a direct link that doesn't require a download, what I did is uploaded the files to my Google drive and right-click, "Get Link." That should work.
PLEASE POST ONLY DIRECT LINKS OR EMBEDED FILES 
Do not post links to other URL's that then require to click additional links.  As well, all audio files should stream and should not require the listener to download the file.  (Direct links to MP3s should stream)

Assignments - Class 1 (Carlos)

The pdfs and mp3s can be downloaded here:

mp3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1edCYetey7gMmZPbXdkR3lmcXc/view?usp=sharing
pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1edCYetey7gZ21mRXQyMmhGQWs/view?usp=sharing

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Prof. Andy's Motive mp3 and pdf

Hi Gang,

Here is an mp3 and pdf of a motive and its development that I came up with this week. I like it a lot and think it will provide some great material for a larger piece. Id love to hear your comments.

My Motives

http://personal.stevens.edu/~abrick/composition/composition_files/abrick_motives_15.mp3

http://personal.stevens.edu/~abrick/composition/composition_files/abrick_motives_15.pdf

Embedding an mp3



When you create a new post within Blogger, you can enter an embed code into
the html.  Feel free to use the line of code below.  Modify the url of your
mp3, click the html tab and then paste it into the html portion of the blog post.

 

<embed autostart="false" height="40" loop="FALSE"
src="http://www.andybrick.com/projects/symphony/andybrick_symphony1.mp3"
width="300"></embed>

Embedding a YouTube Video

To embed a video from YouTube, just follow these simple steps:

  1. Click on the "Share" button underneath the YouTube video.
  2. Select "Show more," and then click on the Blogger icon.
  3. Depending on whether or not you're signed in to your blog, you
    might have to enter in your username and password in the new window that
    pops up.
  4. At the top of the new window, choose the blog you would like to post to from the drop-down menu.
  5. Publish your post!

Posting from Email.

If you send an email to hmu310.stevens@blogger.com it should post it to the blog. Make sure you add the full URL (including http://...) in your links to your work.  The message below came directly from my email:

...........................................
This is a test posting from my email to

hmu310.stevens@blogger.com

It contains a link to an mp3

http://www.andybrick.com/projects/symphony/andybrick_symphony1.mp3

and a link to a pdf score

http://www.andybrick.com/images/scores/abrick_the_peacock.pdf