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Excellent Websites for Beginners to Learn Orchestration

For those who want to use authentic orchestral sounds with software instruments but don't know t...
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Thoughts on a Binding Spell

(Original posted on October 22, 1999)If there was one "binding spell" that often troubled me whe...
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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...
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Orchestration in a Digital Environment

(Originally posted on December 10, 2008)Orchestration, by definition, is the set of empirical ru...
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Thoughts on Overhauling My PC and Sequencer (DAW)

*Introduction & DisclaimerThe following text was originally published on November 10, 2007. The ...
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2009 Edition: Orchestral Sequencing Memo (Archive)

*Foreword & DisclaimerThe content of this article is from the year 2009.This is published as a "...
Book Reviews

Review: “The Wonder of Music” by Sadao Bekku

(Original posted on April 9, 2002)"I am the type of person who cannot help but think not only ab...
Book Reviews

Review: “Bartók’s Compositional Technique” by Ernő Lendvai

(Original posted on April 9, 2002)This is a research book that analyzes the characteristics of B...
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Where Music is Born and Nurtured

(Original posted on January 8, 2009)I found an interesting article on the Asahi Shimbun website....