On Composing: Part 1

Composing to me, is very much like telling a story, and I’ve found it really helpful to think of writing in this way. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end. Each musical idea might represent a character of the story which may appear and reappear at different...

On Composing: Part 2

The Phoebe Buffet school of composing I would like to expand on something that I briefly touched on in the previous section on composing. While knowledge about the mechanics of music itself are important when writing anything…be it harmonically, melodically,...