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Anatomy of the Orchestra by Norman Del Mar (Book Review)

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Norman Del Mar’s engaging and informative writing provides unique insights into instrumentation and the lived experience of a knowledgeable conductor and horn player. Let’s take a look at Anatomy of the Orchestra (1981). The deets I have had this book, Anatomy of the Orchestra, for a while. I cannot remember how I discovered it and […]

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Creativity in Context (Teresa Amabile)

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Teresa Amabile’s book, Creativity in Context (there are no affiliate links in this article), is one of the very few texts that I can say definitively changed my thinking and approach to musical composition. Reading it was a personal, paradigm-shifting moment where I started to understand what music composition and wider studying of music meant to

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