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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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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In this article, I discuss five music books that I own and would keep above all others. Romanticising about living in exile and studying music composition in isolation, they are predominantly music composition books… but not all of them!
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In this article I discuss concepts in Margaret Boden’s book Creativity and Art. Pulling out three points from her book, I discuss why I found them significant as a composer/creative practitioner.
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