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SUMMARY:New Methods for Teaching Music Composition - Dr Julio Estrada\, Un
 iversidad National Autonoma de Mexico (Spanish) 
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CONTACT:Pamela Burnard
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nThe theory of the combinatory potential of the sca
 les is based on the operation with interval classes\, being applicable to 
 pitch and duration intervals. Interval classes offer an efficient synthesi
 s for reducing and expanding information to a maximum. Interval classes tu
 rn out to be more efficient than the pitch classes\, for\, among other asp
 ects\, they reduce information of the intervallic groupings to a minimum n
 umber of cases. The notion of adjacent interval implies the notion of d1 m
 inimal distance\, which allows for the understanding of a scale as a conti
 nuum sequence of adjacent intervals. Music education by means of producing
  melodies\, harmonies and counterpoints is among the essential application
 s of the d1 theory.\n\nBio\n\nDoctor in Music and Musicology from the Univ
 ersity of Strasbourg. Dr. Estrada is Visiting Professor of International M
 usic Courses in Darmstadt\, in the universities of Stanford\, La Jolla\, A
 lbuquerque\, Rostock and Sorbonne\, where he holds the Chair Alfonso Reyes
 . Director of the Centre d'Etudes de Mathématiques et Automatique Musical
 es de Paris (2000-2001). He was granted the Order of Arts and Letters of F
 rance (1980\, 1988) and National University Prize 2001. His training as a 
 musical creator is enriched with the tradition of Orbón and Boulanger\, C
 onservatoire de Paris\, and the avant - Messiaen\, Ligeti\, Lachenmann\, S
 tockhausen and Xenakis. He has been commissioned to create music for the f
 estivals in Darmstadt\, Donaueschingen\, Bremen-Siemens\, Musicadhoy\, Ras
 egna di Nuova Musica\, National Radio of Spain\, Süd-West Rundfunk\, Inte
 rnational Contemporary Ensemble\, etc. Among his works are “Memorias par
 a Teclado”\, “Los Cantos”\, “Los yuunohui\, ishini'ioni\, eolo'ool
 in” and the multi-Opera “Murmullos del Páramo”. The Festivals Tage 
 für Neue Musik (2001 Zurich)\, Music Factory (2002 Bergen) and Three Gene
 rations (2008 NY) are dedicated to his musical\, theoretical and pedagogic
 al work. Dr. Estrada is editor of “Musiv of Mexico” (1984)\, and autho
 r with Jorge Gil of “Music and finite group theory (1984). He postulates
  the D1 Theory of the combinatorial potential of scales (MUSiiC 2006).  He
  is also author of “El sonido en Rulfo\, el ruido ese” (2008 2nd ed.)\
 , and “Reality and continuous imagination”\, “Philosophy\, theory an
 d methods of musical creation “(in press) and “Broken Chant: Silvestre
  Revueltas” (2012). He is Director of the journal “Perspectiva Interdi
 sciplinaria de Música”.	\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS1
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