Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
Composer(s): Jonathan Shaw
Date: ~October 2011 to June 2012
"This was a composition also grounded in my interest in the Baroque period. It was written for the final compositional task required for GCSE music (Year 11), which here was asking for a composition to be written in the 20th century popular style (I'm not not sure how the Baroque applies there). The only way I linked it to this requirement was via 32-bar form, repeated three times with two transitions between sections of 6 bars in length. Of course, this was a very minimal link to popular music and this resulted in the low grade of a C, but I fondly remember my teacher commenting that this piece was “as Baroque as you can get”, which I strongly question when I look back, but nevertheless the comment was my highlight of the month (however false it truly was!)..."
Read more about this piece here:
jshaw.co.uk/c4
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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(s): Jonathan Shaw
Date: ~October 2011 to June 2012
"This was a composition also grounded in my interest in the Baroque period. It was written for the final compositional task required for GCSE music (Year 11), which here was asking for a composition to be written in the 20th century popular style (I'm not not sure how the Baroque applies there). The only way I linked it to this requirement was via 32-bar form, repeated three times with two transitions between sections of 6 bars in length. Of course, this was a very minimal link to popular music and this resulted in the low grade of a C, but I fondly remember my teacher commenting that this piece was “as Baroque as you can get”, which I strongly question when I look back, but nevertheless the comment was my highlight of the month (however false it truly was!)..."
Read more about this piece here:
jshaw.co.uk/c4
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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
