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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Essays Orchestration in a Digital Environment
(Originally posted on December 10, 2008)Orchestration, by definition, is the set of empirical ru...
Cubase & Plugins Thoughts on Overhauling My PC and Sequencer (DAW)
*Introduction & DisclaimerThe following text was originally published on November 10, 2007. The ...
Cubase & Plugins 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...
Essays Where Music is Born and Nurtured
(Original posted on January 8, 2009)I found an interesting article on the Asahi Shimbun website....
Essays In an Environment of Limited Elements and Materials
(Original posted on July 1, 2006)The other day, I bought an "assembly kit" for a kalimba, an Afr...
Essays Savoring “Shiru wo Tanoshimu” (Enjoying Knowing)
(Original posted on March 29, 2007)I watched the NHK program "Shiru wo Tanoshimu" that I had rec...
Book Reviews Review: “Blue Note and Tonality” by Motohiko Hamase
(Original posted on April 9, 2002)This is a rare book that could be described as a "stoic and co...