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Students categorizing music 2019

Oscar van Dillen Posted on September 22, 2019 by oscarAugust 5, 2020

Introduction When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2/3 contained subsets and 2/3 containing supersets. This assignment I call: …
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Posted in Posts | Tagged music philosophy, music theory, philosophy, students

Selfies and other stuff 2013-2018

Oscar van Dillen Posted on December 19, 2018 by oscarDecember 19, 2018
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Here is a first photoblog of my life as artist and teacher, enjoy! ©Oscar van Dillen


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Posted in Biographical | Tagged art education, codarts, composer, composition, interdisciplinary art, students

Students categorizing music 2016

Oscar van Dillen Posted on September 18, 2016 by oscarSeptember 25, 2016

Introduction When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2 contained subsets and 2 containing supersets. This assignment I call: …
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Posted in Music theory, Posts | Tagged music philosophy, music theory, philosophy, students

Whiteboards May 2015

Oscar van Dillen Posted on May 15, 2015 by oscarMay 21, 2016

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in May 2015. All these images and whiteboards deal with art and music, more especially with composition and music theory, so they have some companion pages here that treat at least a part of this in more depth: Outline of …
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Posted in Whiteboards | Tagged music analysis, music theory, students

Whiteboards April 2015

Oscar van Dillen Posted on April 8, 2015 by oscarMay 21, 2016

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in April 2015. All these images and whiteboards deal with art and music, more especially with composition and music theory, so they have some companion pages here that treat at least a part of this in more depth: Outline of …
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Posted in Music theory, World music | Tagged music theory, perception of music, students

Whiteboards March 2015

Oscar van Dillen Posted on March 4, 2015 by oscarMay 21, 2016

Here are the whiteboards and pictures from my lessons in March 2015. All these images and whiteboards deal with art and music, more especially with composition and music theory, so they have some companion pages here that treat at least a part of this in more depth: Outline of …
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Posted in Music theory, Whiteboards, World music | Tagged music theory, rhythm, students, world music, world music composition

Polyethnic Mosaic

Oscar van Dillen Posted on May 20, 2013 by oscarJune 3, 2017

Polyethnic Mosaic was the title of the concert presentation of selected works by the students of the Codarts minor World music composition in practice 2012-2013. This minor is taught and was developed by Oscar van Dillen. Below you will find the full program presented at the concert of 14 …
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Posted in World music composition in practice | Tagged codarts, original, projects, students, world music composition

Codarts project week Day 3 – Thursday 8 November 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 8, 2012 by oscarMay 21, 2016
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This year the project week at Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam includes a worldwide composition project, including students from the global academies for Jazz music, World music and Pop music. This is a report of the final day 3 of this project, after a concept of Carlo de …
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Posted in Codarts | Tagged codarts, composition, recording, students

Codarts project week Day 2 – Tuesday 6 November 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 6, 2012 by oscarMay 21, 2016

This year the project week at Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam includes a worldwide composition project, including students from the global academies for Jazz music, World music and Pop music. This is a report of day 2 of this project, after a concept of Carlo de Wijs and …
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Posted in Codarts | Tagged codarts, composition, recording, students

Codarts project week Day 1 – Monday 5 November 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on November 5, 2012 by oscarMay 21, 2016
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This year the project week at Codarts University of the Arts Rotterdam includes a worldwide composition project, including students from the global academies for Jazz music, World music and Pop music. Working after a concept of Carlo de Wijs, coordinated by Ronald Kool, and with a working plan by …
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Posted in Codarts | Tagged codarts, composition, recording, students

Students categorizing music 2012

Oscar van Dillen Posted on October 30, 2012 by oscarSeptember 18, 2016

Introduction When provoking thinking about music in teaching I am used to asking my students how they personally conceptualize and position music in itself, asking them to describe and position music as a middle level category in between 2 contained subsets and 2 containing supersets. This assignment I call: …
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Posted in Tools for students | Tagged art, culture, music, music philosophy, music theory, outline of basic music theory, perception, philosophy, physics of sound, students

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