The change from "successive composition" to "simultaneous conception" is one of the great turning points in the history of music. The latter term, derived from Pietro Aaron's allusion to the method of ...

The premise of the fourth episode of Now Hear This was to document the compositional process of a complete beginner. What difficulties would a novice encounter? How would one even start to write a ...

But her pieces are richly textured -- rife with sonic surprises, strangely logical-sounding convolutions and occasional jagged edges and noisy explosions. And trying to figure out how she and her ...

For composers, drawing a “map” of music can give shape to a new work and articulate its overarching ideas. As evocations of the composer’s intentions—from sweeping curves to stars, birds and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Music and the Moving Image is an online journal dedicated to the relationship between the entire universe of music and moving ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

Unleashed is an album that captures my overall headspace as an individual. This year I turned 30 years old and welcomed my firstborn child into the world, John Altin Sencalar. Two major milestones in ...