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Technique in composing.

I've started this thread so as to not further derail Guy's thread re intuituve composing. 

This post is a result of my and David's discussion about the use of technique whilst composing, i.e. using craft. I said I'd post some examples from how I use t

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string quartet no. 14

I present another work from the "Intuitive Factory" to be ignored or listened to as you see fit. This time it's a rather neoclassical string quartet which is officially actually in C major, though this key first appears only in the second subject rec

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The Little Mermaid

I've recently completed my magnum opus, a setting of the HC Andersen tale The Little Mermaid. At over 1hr 7 mins, it's the longest thing I've ever written but is perhaps also the best and certainly the most characteristic of the sort of thing I'm mos

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Vier deutsche Lieder

Quite a few years ago, I experimented with three short songs to German Romantic poets. Initially I had no software which could sing text so didn't pay that much attention to the text setting but decided to go back to these works and lay the words out

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Rock fugue

Disclaimer: This is not my work nor am I associated with it in any way.  I stumbled across it while browsing fugues online, and it's just too cool not to repost here:

I've always wanted to write a rock fugue, or any fugue that isn't in baroque/classic

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2 Replies · Reply by Rowy Sep 26
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Ahmed Khan

Someone in the upper echelons should probably check out Ahmed Khan, whose friend request message veers several miles into "spam bot" territory. I accepted purely to see was in their profile.

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8 Replies · Reply by David Sep 4
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Notation question: staccatos

I'm working on a piece where 99% of the 8th notes are staccato. What's the best way to notate this? I thought of writing sempre staccato but not all notes are staccato, only 8th notes (and not all of them, though the overwhelming majority are). Longe

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2 Replies · Reply by HS Teoh Aug 14
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Why do you write music?

I'll go first. I like to make things—not to express myself, but because I want to understand how things work. By writing music, I get to see the layers underneath. How does a brain work? After decades of profound drinking and thinking, I realized tha

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4 Replies · Reply by HS Teoh Jul 8
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Serenade for Strings

as this forum seems to have died recently, I feel obliged to post something new. Well actually, it isn't really new but my String Serenade has been redone with a new chamber strings library and for the most part, I like the result. The piece is a bit

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17 Replies · Reply by HS Teoh Jun 19
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