Dmitri Timoshenko

Tag: composer

  • Amazing journey

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    I’ve been to many interesting places, involving in exciting adventures. But my life greatest journeys I always make within my music.

  • Uniting feelings and theory of music

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    Recently I wrote couple of pop songs: one is for guitar and voice and another is simply a guitar piece called “A Song Without Words”. Usually I write more “light” music when I want to exercise melody variations, rhythms and voice leading and check how work basic important things that I learn at the school.…

  • New video of A.D. libitum playing

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    At the request of our fans few days ago we gathered with Angelito and recorded our original pieces on video. Enjoy! 🙂 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iwXCUAxd3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i5ygAepyWo

  • Use of quotation

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    As nice quotation makes story strong,  the same effect has borrowed musical idea on a piece!

  • Art of imitation

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    In music schools we study Renaissance and Baroque cadenzas and do exercises so to learn doing them well. But another thing is to master those skills of great composers at level that you are able to make your own nice piece using them and that it sounds nice and natural! So nowadays I am digging deeper…

  • Composer: how to find your own style

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    That’s an interesting question! I guess, many young “classical” composers break their heads on figuring out the answer. So do I… Here I would like to write about my vision of composing as a professional. Style of composing: “classical” or since word “classical” has very wide meaning (are we talking about Classicism period music – Mozart, for example,…

  • Study different forms!

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    In recent weeks I felt a great lack of knowledge about different musical forms. I understood how vital it is for a composer to know ways of developing an idea: how is was done in different centuries, in different countries: form of a song, variations, sonata, ricercare and fantasia. At least this basic stuff should be…

  • Composer-Performer exam

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    Today I made my Composer-Performer exam: 30 mins of original music for guitar solo, guitar duo and trio (soprano, guitar (this time there were two! 🙂 and a double bass). Thank you my guests, guys and girls. On guitars: Angelito and Paul Double bass: Alexandra Soprano: Karina Those Great musicians made my music sound really nice!

  • New piece for guitar duo is coming

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    Two weeks ago, after my Indian music lesson I was walking home, when suddenly in my head was born a concept of a new piece for two guitars. All the road I was singing the melodies, trying not to forget them. After arriving at my place, I immediately took a pencil and started to write them down,…

  • Guitar sonata by Vsevolod Pozdejev

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    Good news for guitarist and music lovers! Estonian guitar music repertoire got new piece – Sonata by Vsevolod Pozdejev. Shortly about the piece. In summer 2014 I asked, if he could write some larger form for the guitar (previously he wrote one beautiful piece, which I did recorded last year). He agreed and few months…