Monthly archive for August2016

When I was at the University of Washington, there were about two dozen composition majors, both grad and undergrad. With the eight members of the composition faculty, we would meet for an hour once a week after lunch on Fridays in the recital hall (now…

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A key part of my musical autobiography, one I have almost never mentioned in my bios, is music copying. Of course, a composer copies music by necessity, inscribing the notes and other symbols on the blank page, making them legible, accurate, and communicative. At one…

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