From: "jeremy arden"
To: "Daniel Leo Simpson"
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:35 AM
Subject: Schillinger competition

Dear daniel

I'm delighted to tell you that we have decided to award you joint first prize and that your composition will be performed on the 20th May at the University of Hertfordshire. I particularly appreciated your rigorous score and the flowing sweetness of your music, structurally very solid but fluid and free sounding. It goes to show that Schillinger techniques can be used to produce whatever the composer intends. Your composition makes a nice contrast to the other winner, a composition by Stace Constantinu, who has written a more motoric and gritty score reminiscent of a minimalist style.

Thanks for all your hard work. We will record the concert and we will send you a CD in due course.

Best wishes and congratulations

Jeremy Arden
The Schillinger School of Music



The Schillinger System of Musical Composition, named after it creator Joseph Schillinger (1895-1943), is a method of musical composition based on mathematical processes found in nature (repeated geometric figures such as the pinwheel in a snails shell or snowflakes for example, or mathmatical reoccurences in number schemes found in flower petal leafs etc.) It comprises theories of rhythm, harmony, melody, counterpoint, form, and orchestration.

The Composer has found more people discussing the System and arguing or debating its worth than actually putting it to good use in a worthy composition of value. Though vigorous discussions can be stimulating and engaging, the real value lies in the value of the art generated from it, through it, or positively influenced by it. The Composer has instead, respectfully moved past these discussions opting instead to make an effort to actually compose music of value using the system as was originally intended by it's creator, Joseph Schillinger.


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Listen to The Art of Schillinger ^r3-2 and download the score or watch the YouTube version at the bottom of this page

Thanks goes out to Sibelius Notation Software which rendered the score and Garritan Personal Orchestra sampled audio used to submit to The Schillinger School of Music in the UK - (and thank you to Philip DiTullio of The Schillinger Society  for his tutoring me in the Schillinger System of Musical Composition which led to the submission of this composition).

The Art of Schillinger ^r3-2 (Download the Mp3 Audio)
The Art of Schillinger ^r3-2 (Download the PDF Score)
Scroll to bottom of page for YouTube captured video with audio.

The live piano trio version which will be recorded in the UK and released on CD thereafter.

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