For composers, drawing a “map” of music can give shape to a new work and articulate its overarching ideas. As evocations of the composer’s intentions—from sweeping curves to stars, birds and ...

The premise of the fourth episode of Now Hear This was to document the compositional process of a complete beginner. What difficulties would a novice encounter? How would one even start to write a ...

Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...