I was thinking the other day - why do we write music? Is it to impress a small group of people with our compositional skill - or is it to move people on an emotional and perhaps even a spiritual level? That got me thinking of what my motivations have been for writing music over the course of my life. What motivated me to write music, and for what purpose was I writing?ImpressionsI started writin
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Why Do I Write Music?
Pope Marcellus Mass, Second Installment - MODE
Today I focused on determining the overall “key†of the Pope Marcellus Mass. This can be a somewhat difficult task, for many reasons. For one, the concept of “keys†did not exist in the 15th century as we think of them today. Music was based on a system of “modesâ€, and mode was determined by the range and melodic activity of the “tenor†– which was considered to be the most im
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Where Do I Belong?
For a long time I've been trying to figure out where I (I meaning my music) fit within today's cultural society? I'm not even talking about some broad topic, like where does classical music fit into our society or something like that - I'm talking about MY music. Where do I fit? The normal course that composers take (for the most part) is, they get a doctorate in music composition, and then they
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