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Advice and Techniques

Offer informal advice on methods of composition, compositional technique (e.g., fugue writing, chorale-style harmonization), etc., that you feel may be of benefit and interest to our members.

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  2. Ever build harmony by stacking down?

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  3. Conventions For Writing Long Rests...

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  4. Notating Stuff In A Not Ugly Way?

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  5. Scoring for silent films

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  6. How do you do it? learn it?

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  7. Yo all you CELLISTS out there

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  8. What's the hardest thing when writting a fugue?

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  9. The mesures of the tones (a theorical study)

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    • 3.1k views
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  10. Question on Orchestration

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  13. Secondary dominants and modulation

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  14. Writing for Saxophone Quartet 101

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    • 13 replies
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  15. Books on polytonality?

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    • 13 replies
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  16. Starting your career as a Composer-Sound Designer FAQ

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    • 13 replies
    • 3.1k views
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  17. Can a violin be tuned up a half step?

    JacksonLast,
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    • 6.4k views
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  18. How much time?

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    • 13 replies
    • 3.2k views
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  19. The string section and top-down importance

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    • 13 replies
    • 2.9k views
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  20. how to be more barok-classical?

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  21. writing for guitar

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    • 13 replies
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    Geert Van Hoorick

  22. Chromatic passages: # or b, and when?

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  23. Alternate Clefs in Solo Piano Writing?

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    • 13 replies
    • 3.1k views
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  25. Modulation into the Minor Subdominant

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