Book Reviews Review: “17 Perspectives on Music History” by Wakio Tamura and Fumio Narumi
(Originally posted on April 10, 2002)This book can be described as an ambitious attempt to re-ex...
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Book Reviews Review: ‘Listening Out Loud: Becoming a Composer’ by Elizabeth Swados
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)This is a book that can be called an anthem for aspiring compo...
Essays Going on a Field Trip with the Song I’m Composing
(Originally posted on April 17, 2007)The weather was beautiful today, so I saved the song I'm wo...
Essays Trying Out the Jew’s Harp
(Originally posted on July 8, 2006)Encouraged by my recent experience with a "Kalimba Assembly K...
Book Reviews Review: “Orchestral Technique” by Gordon Jacob
(Original posted on January 23, 2009)It is astonishing that the essence of orchestration is cont...
Essays Excellent Websites for Beginners to Learn Orchestration
For those who want to use authentic orchestral sounds with software instruments but don't know t...
Essays Thoughts on a Binding Spell
(Original posted on October 22, 1999)If there was one "binding spell" that often troubled me whe...
Essays The Mental State During Composition
(Original posted on June 26, 2009)This text is an attempt to describe the mental state of my cre...
Book Reviews Review: “Orchestration” by Walter Piston
(Originally posted on April 9, 2002)Among the orchestration books currently available, this is t...
Essays Orchestration in a Digital Environment
(Originally posted on December 10, 2008)Orchestration, by definition, is the set of empirical ru...