HALEY WOODROW
COMPOSER
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Recent Blog Articles
Read about recent past events in the areas of my efforts in composition, performance, educational initiatives, and entrepreneurship.
Listening to Artistic Music, Score Study and Composition Planning
This article has been updated with embedded videos that include three online lessons on Listening, Score Study and Composition Planning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It works well as a supplement for ensembles who either have performed or intended to perform my "In Two Places", but can also be used for other educational purposes as well. Contact me through my contact form if you'd like the accompanying exercises in PDf format you can assign to your students, and please consider doing a Skype or Zoom call with me and your students as a part of the educational effort!
Grade 1 Band
This article will discuss fourteen of the most played works in the Grade 1 Band category of the Texas Prescribed Music List (PML). I am currently hard at work this Spring creating three new band pieces, and have been intensively studying scores to find patterns as to what the most popular pieces have in common, as well as what makes each piece unique. This part 1 article will discuss the patterns I have discovered in comparing the pieces in terms of key, meter, tempo, difficulty level, theme, length, ranges, melody and harmony.
2022 Chamber Music Composition Program at Tarrant County College
Learning how to fulfill commissions is a necessary skill for composers! In this article I'll cover what I've learned so far on the subject, both through my experience with my compositions, as well as with the thirty compositions our composers have written in the past three years through the Tarrant County College Chamber Music Composition Program.
2021 Chamber Music Composition Program at Tarrant County College
Learning how to fulfill commissions is a necessary skill for composers! In this article I'll cover what I've learned so far on the subject, both through my experience with my compositions, as well as with the thirty compositions our composers have written in the past three years through the Tarrant County College Chamber Music Composition Program.
The Should-Be Parallel Nature of Creative Process and Entrepreneurship
One of the best conversations I have ever had on the topic of composing happened a little over a year ago during lunch with two of my former classmates, and the esteemed Professor of Composition from the Juilliard School, John Corigliano.
March of the Shadows
In response to COVID-19, I have created music for band students to play at home! I have taken the melody and "fun lines" from my "March of the Shadows", pasted them all into one part and then copied the music for all instruments. Also included are accompaniment tracks to play along to! Please feel free to embed in LMS systems such as Blackboard and Canvas. And if your students enjoy the music, please consider purchasing and programming from this website for the 2020-2021 school year! I do accept Purchase Orders.