
Oct 10 2022
Apr 29 2022
A musical send-off will take place at UMA Gallery in Oakland this Thursday, May 5th, 2022, 7:30pm. This hour-long program of original solo piano will be my last performance as a Bay Area resident. Thank you for everything. I…
Read moreNov 3 2021
I will be taking a brief leave of absence from my current residency at the Dorland Artist Colony in Temecula, CA, in order to attend Awesöme Orchestra Collective's EOY concert and fundraiser on Sunday, December 12th at the Freight and…
Read moreNov 3 2021
With only two months left on sabbatical before I return home, the time has come to assimilate my newly minted skills and check a few things off of my composerly to-do list. Here is my capstone orchestration project, Syrinx Symphony…
Read moreAug 20 2021
I have enjoyed sweating my way through "Part One" of Paul Hindemith's bootcamp-esque Elementary Training For Musicians. I was initially dismayed by Hindemith's cosmically grumpy introduction which is rife with abrasive/exclusionary language, but I'm glad I shrugged off his…
Read moreAug 19 2021
I had the privilege and pleasure of collaborating with ONIKHO to create an orchestral arrangement of her new song "Love Bold" for Awesöme Orchestra! You can see/hear it (and two other beautiful new works) in this documentary produced by…
Read moreAug 11 2021
Here are exercises 1, 2, 4, and 5 at the end of Chapter Six of Twentieth Century Harmony, pg. 158-159!
Holly Mead · 20th Century Harmony Chapter 7 Exercises 1,2,4,5
Aug 10 2021
Here are exercises 2, 3, 6, and 7 at the end of Chapter Five of Twentieth Century Harmony, pg. 133-134!
Holly Mead · 20th Century Harmony Chapter 6 Exercises 2,3,6,7
Aug 9 2021
Here are exercises 1-7, 9, and 11 at the end of Chapter Five of Twentieth Century Harmony, pg. 119-120!
Holly Mead · 20th Century Harmony Chapter 5 Exercises 1 - 7, 9, 11
Jul 31 2021
Jul 29 2021
Today, I combined a Phrygian-Major tetrachord with a Lydian-Major tetrachord to create a modified v.2 of yesterday's tune. Tomorrow, I'd like to try combining/lengthening yesterday and today's snippets to create a more substantial piece.
Holly Mead · Exotic Tetrachords_Lyd-Min-Phr-Maj
Jul 28 2021
I've been puttering my way through Ron Gorow's Hearing & Writing Music: Professional Training for Today's Musician for quite some time, and I was able to finish it this week. There are already plenty of descriptions/reviews of Gorow's book floating…
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