In this video, Sarah meets the Cologne composer and musician Marco Mlynek, who talks about his career and his work as a composer, introduces his music and teaches the basics of music theory.
How do I become a composer and how is the composition process organised nowadays? What is behind the concept of formal theory? How do current songs differ from earlier compositions? One of his songs will be analysed in more detail using musical design parameters.
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