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If artists (like Beethoven, Mozart, or Schoenberg) wrote music to please audiences they wouldn't be artists, they'd be entertainers. Do scientists investigate the physical universe to please people who know nothing about science? Do writers who have stood the test of time write literature to please ...

First of all you have to have courage. If you make mistakes during a concert, you're not going to die! You have to eliminate the self-consciousness and fear during the rehearsal phase. First work out the tecnical problems, then address physical movement and fluidity of body movement (if you're body ...

There's a simple answer and a more complicated answer to the original question. Figured bass is a left over technique from the Baroque period obviously, where the harpsichord adds harmonic chordal structure form the written "fiqured bass." Cellos and basses would have played the single lin...

Well if you feel that way, why not read Latin, only look at old paintings, read literature from past centuries, study Issac Newton and classical physics? There are no limits on classical music, it is in constant development and changes along side technology. Gee, wouldn't it be great if we had brass...

Sound and then music requires energy in the form of a wave, a medium to transmit as in air, and the absence of sound as the polarization for reference (as in light and dark - the absence of light, which is also a wave form energy). Music as a phenomena is as old as any human artifacts (archeological...

To me music is organized sound that requires intellect, architecture, emotion, and technique. I think Stockhausen's music qualifies as MUSIC. I find it hard to beleive that there are still serious musicians around (who are educated and trained) who still don't understand that concept? Technology and...

I just started writing orchestral works more recently as composer. I highly recommend good software like Sibelius, Notion, or Finale, which now have more sophisticated sampling engines and sample libraries allowing for solo and ensemble instruments, articulations, dynamics, variable tempo, etc. It i...

Schoenberg is one of the greatest musical thinkers of all time. Berg and Webern, both great composers wouldn't have been possible without Schoenberg's innovations and development of atonal language, which influnced (and continues to influence) contemporary music and much of the 20th centrury. His wr...

Isn't Boulez one of the founders of IRCAM? That alone in itself make him an important composer, thinker, and representative of French music. I have a hunger for contemporary music and remain pretty open minded about contemporary composers in general. I appreciate the use of technology, computers nex...