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1. What is an opus? 1 2

   By Jeremiah Hong, June 23, 2006
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   • Andrew Baldwin
   • August 2, 2006

2. Considering applying to Yale composition Masters

   By composerorganist, June 25, 2011
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   • Yanis Sabir
   • September 26, 2012

3. Any Methods To Compose Music Fast? (Get Rid Of Writer's Block)

   By Norby, February 3, 2012
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   • Guest
   • May 28, 2012

4. Pitfalls of Composers 1 2 3

   By JC92488, August 14, 2007
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   • Dirk Gently
   • August 18, 2007

5. Composing Inspiration 1 2

   By z916, February 10, 2008
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   • 06percussion10
   • July 8, 2008

6. 9th,11th,13th chords

   By walters, August 25, 2005
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   • walters
   • August 29, 2005

7. What do you compose with? 1 2

   By piano_player18, December 9, 2005
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   • Will Kirk
   • September 23, 2006

8. Quick Question on Cello Range

   By Spoon284, August 12, 2008
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   • Some Guy That writes Music
   • September 17, 2018

9. Functional Harmony in contrapuntal Music

   By DAI, December 11, 2011   

   • counterpoint
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   • DAI
   • June 3, 2012

10. The Super Ultra Hyper Mega Meta Lydian Scale

    By Carmen Hunter, July 17, 2019   

    • jacob collier
    • super ultra hyper mega meta lydian
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    • Coreymac
    • May 9, 2020

11. Writing Parts For Doubling

    By aracu, April 30, 2013
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    • Austenite
    • June 4, 2013

12. Imitation or copying

    By computers70, November 26, 2010
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    • SSC
    • November 29, 2010

13. Orchestration And Midi Sequencing?

    By edharris99, July 26, 2012
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    • treehugger1995
    • February 12, 2013

14. Pairing of four french horns

    By MariusChamberlin, June 18, 2010
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    • Gardener
    • June 18, 2010

15. Alto Sax extended technique

    By Audiosprite, November 26, 2010
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    • Black Orpheus
    • November 30, 2010

16. Marcato vs. Martele - how???

    By kadowser, November 7, 2007
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    • 920bpm
    • October 13, 2008

17. Tonality 1 2

    By Green, May 3, 2013
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    • Green
    • May 24, 2013

18. Anyone know how to get their hands on some sulfur hexafluoride?

    By Audiosprite, December 20, 2010
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    • Silva
    • December 23, 2010

19. Writing for a piano "jazz Chord Voicings"

    By JayGreenthumb, October 31, 2009
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    • Anatol_Rennie
    • April 16, 2012

20. Moving By An Augmented Second

    By Alejandro Tudela, June 7, 2014   

    • four-part
    • counterpoint
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    • Alejandro Tudela
    • June 10, 2014

21. 16th Century Counterpoint - 2 voices - 2nd species 1 2

    By composerorganist, November 1, 2008
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    • composerorganist
    • February 21, 2009

22. IV7 - I

    By bryla, October 15, 2006
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    • montpellier
    • October 24, 2006

23. Crossed Voices and overlapping voices

    By walters, August 22, 2005
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    • walters
    • August 29, 2005

24. Any Way To Indicate Bow Changes Other Than A New Note?

    By June, November 26, 2014   

    • bowing
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    • June
    • December 24, 2014

25. Portamento?

    By KJthesleepdeprived, November 20, 2014
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    • KJthesleepdeprived
    • December 2, 2014