Whether you’re just starting out at composing or have been writing music for decades, improving your composing skills can help you find greater technical mastery, artistic fulfillment, and career success. Deliberately developing your composing skills is especially important if you’re not yet as good of a composer as you hope to be (which describes most […]
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Speak Your Musical Truth
A musical idea is not just something you visualize in your brain or even something you hear in your mind’s ear. It is both those things and more. It is most of all something you feel in your GUT. It is as instinctive and as personal and as urgent as the words you speak. Sometimes […]
Continue readingTwo Conflicting Views on Influence
“After all,” says Harrison Birtwistle, “we all come from somewhere: we don’t invent it for ourselves; we don’t come from the moon.”
Continue readingDiscovery: My Title Had *Two* Beginnings
How I came up with a title for “Summer Has Ten Thousand Stars.”
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