Composers' Headquarters

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1. Do you recommend Music Composition for Dummies?

   By Kidbooo, February 23, 2019
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   • altanvid
   • January 11, 2022

2. Is arranging music composing?

   By mogoflix, April 16, 2022
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   • Quinn
   • April 22, 2022

3. Composed vs. "discovered" music

   By Tom Statler, September 25, 2022
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   • AKAChristopher
   • October 16, 2022

4. How do you all come up with themes and motives?

   By Beethoven is God, July 6, 2023   

   • motifs
   • themes
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   • Beethoven is God
   • July 14, 2023

5. Newbie question about some exercises in Piston's Harmony

   By hyperaticism, January 28
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   • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
   • January 28

6. Is composition easy or hard? What's your weakness?

   By PeterthePapercomPoser, January 31
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   • Polaris
   • March 15

7. please, identify this! searching for years!

   By variousmusik, December 8, 2009
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   • variousmusik
   • December 9, 2009

8. David Cope and Artificially Intelligent Composition

   By Black Orpheus, February 25, 2010
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   • Ferkungamabooboo
   • March 2, 2010

9. Fifths intervals on strings

   By eepyikes, March 18, 2010
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   • composerorganist
   • March 19, 2010

10. Lessons I am learning...

    By insightfulmusic, March 27, 2010
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    • SSC
    • March 28, 2010

11. the connection between performance of the composer

    By The J, April 3, 2010
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    • pianoman216
    • April 6, 2010

12. Concept and execution

    By Anecca, August 10, 2010
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    • composerorganist
    • August 13, 2010

13. Where did you study music theory and the arts of composing?

    By Nandel, December 10, 2010
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    • Plutokat
    • December 15, 2010

14. Borrowing thematic material

    By PhantomOftheOpera, December 28, 2010
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    • Dule
    • December 29, 2010

15. Arvo Part

    By Muzic, January 13, 2011
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    • Allourep
    • February 15, 2011

16. Every Note Justified Of A Progression Of My Own

    By composerorganist, May 11, 2011
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    • SSC
    • May 13, 2011

17. Incorporation of old elements into new music.

    By Voce, May 22, 2011
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    • jrcramer
    • May 26, 2011

18. printing music for an orchestra?

    By thatboy, July 4, 2011
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    • thatboy
    • July 5, 2011

19. Anyone up for a meet-up of the New York City area YCers?

    By composerorganist, July 4, 2011
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    • composerorganist
    • July 20, 2011

20. Maestrowick Presents: Part III of III: and the like

    By maestrowick, October 4, 2011   

    • jobs
    • commissions
    • (and 2 more)

      Tagged with:

      • jobs
      • commissions
      • music
      • composition
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    • maestrowick
    • October 7, 2011

21. Mozart breaks....

    By HeckelphoneNYC, October 20, 2011   

    • mozart
    • rule breaker
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      • rule breaker
      • parallel octaves
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    • HeckelphoneNYC
    • October 23, 2011

22. How Long Did It Take You To Get Good At Composing?

    By yankeefan2001, February 27, 2012
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    • wayne-scales
    • February 27, 2012

23. Townhouse Meeting!

    By maestrowick, March 21, 2012   

    • composition
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    • composerorganist
    • March 23, 2012

24. The Harp Legacy Project/harp Composition

    By Shirley Meyer Blankenship, April 15, 2012
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    • Shirley Meyer Blankenship
    • May 3, 2012

25. Making Connections

    By Michael Armstrong, January 11, 2013   

    • college
    • performers
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      Tagged with:

      • college
      • performers
      • professional connections
    • 8 replies
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    • Plutokat
    • January 20, 2013