I love being a student composer. It involves a rather enjoyable luxury: I have a teacher. This means I can work as long and as hard as I want to create something I think is amazingly beautiful, emotionally moving, etc, bounce into his office with a giant grin on my face ... and have him tear my work into shreds ( Read more... )

I had an interesting time in today's Style Analysis class. We talked about how we're going to set up the final project, an analysis of Ravel's String Quartet in F Major. I'm happy because my setup seemed to go over fairly well AND I borrowed an idea from Jonathan to include a column for Tutti. (I had each instrument; I wanted to be able to keep ( Read more... )