Essays Composition as a Building Process: Thoughts on Schoenberg’s “Fundamentals of Musical Composition”
(Originally posted on April 8, 2002)The author offers the following advice to beginner composers...
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Book Reviews Review: “The Thematic Process in Music” by Rudolph Réti
(Originally posted on April 9, 2002)As its Japanese subtitle, "The Theme and Construction of Cla...
Essays Thematic Structure as a Compositional Element: Thoughts on Reading “The Melodic Science of Masterpieces”
(Original posted on April 8, 2002)One could say that a characteristic of "large-scale works," su...
Essays The Utility and Limits of Imitation: Reflections on “The Wonders of Music”
(Original posted on April 4, 2002)The author, Sadao Bekku, has a very clear way of writing, and ...
Essays Architecture is Frozen Music (The Structure of Music) – Reflections on ‘The Wonders of Music’
(Originally posted on April 8, 2002)It seems that music has often been discussed in close compar...
Cubase & Plugins ASIO-Guard Explained – For Stability and Performance in Your Production Environment
This article focuses on "ASIO-Guard," a feature Cubase users will have likely encountered.In DAW...
Cubase & Plugins How to Make MIDI Data Drag and Drop Work Correctly
Have you ever been frustrated when dragging and dropping MIDI data from Cubase's MediaBay, only ...
Cubase & Plugins Is Nahimic Causing Your Cubase to Crash & Freeze? Solutions Here
It's a truly frustrating problem when Cubase suddenly freezes or crashes in the middle of being ...
Book Reviews Review: ‘A History of Western Music: The Twilight of “Classicism”‘ by Akeo Okada
(Original posted on November 28, 2008)This is a wonderfully ambitious work. Among music history ...
Music Reviews Rediscovering the Charm of Lutoslawski
Rediscovering the Charm of Lutosławski(Original posted on June 14, 2006)I recently listened agai...