Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
Composer: Jonathan Shaw (b.1995)
Date: ~April to December 2012
"More youthful arrogance saw my attempt at rivalling Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias, in these little harpsichord pieces I simply entitled "Melody no.[x] in [key]". I wrote these towards the end of my time at secondary school, and in the beginning of my first year at college. It originally started as a single harpsichord piece in G major, but I stretched it out into a “book” and wrote a small piece in each of the sharp major keys and C major. I had intended to do three more “books” to write a small harpsichord piece in each respective key for the flat major, sharp minor and flat minor keys, but as you will soon read about, I did not get very far with these, only getting partially through "Book 2" (again, thankfully so!). Here is the complete chronological order of the book 1 melodies, following the circle of fifths and all played at 100 beats per minute..."
Read more about this piece here:
jshaw.co.uk/c10
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What is this channel?
As a composer in the 21st century, I thought it might be interesting to catalogue and share on all of the projects I have undertaken, both for your own curiosity, but also for my own personal reflection on my development as a composer, and to some extent, a practitioner.
In short, this "C List" is the "Chronological List" for all of my major projects, including my own works, but also transcriptions and arrangements of other composer's works, educational tasks, and unfinished works that merit cataloguing.
For each of the works, I provide a reflection (a "reminiscence") about its context, how, and why I wrote it, as well as some analyses.
On some of these projects, I have recorded the entire compositional process itself, which again may offer some insight into compositional methods of 21st century music.
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Software Used:
★Sibelius 6 Student
★Adobe Premiere Elements 15
© Jonathan Shaw 2018
Composer: Jonathan Shaw (b.1995)
Date: ~April to December 2012
"More youthful arrogance saw my attempt at rivalling Bach’s Inventions and Sinfonias, in these little harpsichord pieces I simply entitled "Melody no.[x] in [key]". I wrote these towards the end of my time at secondary school, and in the beginning of my first year at college. It originally started as a single harpsichord piece in G major, but I stretched it out into a “book” and wrote a small piece in each of the sharp major keys and C major. I had intended to do three more “books” to write a small harpsichord piece in each respective key for the flat major, sharp minor and flat minor keys, but as you will soon read about, I did not get very far with these, only getting partially through "Book 2" (again, thankfully so!). Here is the complete chronological order of the book 1 melodies, following the circle of fifths and all played at 100 beats per minute..."
Read more about this piece here:
jshaw.co.uk/c10
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What is this channel?
As a composer in the 21st century, I thought it might be interesting to catalogue and share on all of the projects I have undertaken, both for your own curiosity, but also for my own personal reflection on my development as a composer, and to some extent, a practitioner.
In short, this "C List" is the "Chronological List" for all of my major projects, including my own works, but also transcriptions and arrangements of other composer's works, educational tasks, and unfinished works that merit cataloguing.
For each of the works, I provide a reflection (a "reminiscence") about its context, how, and why I wrote it, as well as some analyses.
On some of these projects, I have recorded the entire compositional process itself, which again may offer some insight into compositional methods of 21st century music.
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Software Used:
★Sibelius 6 Student
★Adobe Premiere Elements 15
© Jonathan Shaw 2018
