Survey: sketches and music composition (2)
Dear maxers,
Many thanks to those who replied to my questionnaire.
I would appreciate more participation, so if you did not fill the questionnaire, please take 5 minutes to do so. In particular, I would like to determine whether sketching at the early stage of a composition is a common practice or not. Therefore, if you DON'T sketch before composing, please fill the questionnaire also.
Best wishes,
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Please find below a questionnaire on composition practices. This survey
is meant to study the relation between notation and composition,
focusing in particular on the sketches drawn at the early stage of a
composition. If you do draw sketches before composing a piece, you are
kindly invited to send them attached as an image, along with this
questionnaire. Please send your answer to this e-mail address:
jbt@dcs.qmul.ac.uk or fill this questionnaire on the web :
http://www.dcs.qmul.ac.uk/research/imc/sketches/
Please forward this questionnaire to any person or list interested in
the subject.
A disclaimer follows the questionnaire.
Best regards,
Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
*Questionnaire: Sketches and Music Composition*
1 -What material did you use at the early stage of the composition ?
(i.e. pen & paper, computer, instruments,...)
2 - Where were you when you started? (at your usual desk, in your bed,
walking,...)
3 - What was the first representation of the piece? (a vague shape, an
organised structure, a process that has nothing to do with visuals,
...). If you don't use representation you can go to question 6.
4 - What do you represent at this stage? (structure, melodic patterns,
rhythmic patterns, dynamics, states, events, etc.)
5 - How much details are represented at this stage?
6 - If you didn't represent anything, how did you think of the piece?
7 - How did the piece evolve from its early stage, did the overall
structure remain or did it change?
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Jean-Baptiste Thiebaut
Interaction, Media and Communication Group
Queen Mary, University of London
Tel:+44 (0)207 8825 257