A few days ago, composer Dan Forrest asked a great question in the American Choral Composers Forum: These are two great questions: How do you know you’ve found “a really beautiful and worthwhile musical idea” How do balance the “courage to commit to an idea that might be good” vs. “enough awareness” to abandon an […]
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Onions and Ogres—and Music
So what DO onions and music (and ogres) have in common? . . . Layers! Layers are the key component of “melody and accompaniment” textures I wrote about earlier this week. This week I’ve been thinking a lot about texture — the layers of activity in a passage of music and the relationships between these […]
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