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Whether you are a beginner or an experienced composer, you should always be striving to better your craft and plumb new depths of your style. Using targeted composition exercises can dramatically improve your musical ear and technical ability, having a direct knock-on impact on your confidence and creativity. Creativity is not only natural but also learnt and encouraged to grow. Try writing a melody using only three notes to limit yourself and force creativity. Choose three n

The Impressionist composers inhabited the latter period of the romantic period, roughly between 1890 and 1920, with atmospheric music that had ambiguity in both harmony and rhythm often granting an ethereal or otherworldly quality. The pieces often avoided traditional forms (such as sonata form) and moved away from holding to specific major or minor conventions, shifting between modes and utilising dissonances and chromatic passages freely. Aligned with the artistic movement

This is a question I’m asked oddly regularly and it is something I asked a composer (Jazz saxophonist Ned Bennett) many years ago that still makes me cringe with embarrassment. What does it mean to be a composer? Well, quite frankly, it’s someone who writes music. Sometimes that music is good and sometimes music is less good but the trick is to make sure that the music gets marginally better each time. As long as you follow the ‘Latest is the Greatest’ rule then you know that

Contemporary classical music has been dominated by the likes of Ludovico Einaudi, Philip Glass and Nils Frahms for the past thirty-odd years (longer in Einaudi’s case). This is entirely understandable as moving pieces such as Divenire (Einaudi), Glass’s Glassworks album (it’s all brilliant) and Frahms’ Ambre have inspiring melodies whilst being wonderfully simple in their execution. I’ve always thought that this is the strength of the Contemporary Classical movement - it main

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