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Is This Recognisable?

Hi - I've just bought VSL Solo Voices, and thought that a good way to learn to write for voices might be to make an unusual cover of a well-known song. I've chosen "If I Fell" by The Beatles.

However, as the cover is so differently arranged from the

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4 Replies · Reply by Guy Shahar Dec 19, 2024
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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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14 Replies · Reply by Robert Kennedy Nov 25, 2024
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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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8 Replies · Reply by David Oct 1, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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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, 2024
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