Composers' Headquarters

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1. Is the Absolute Symphony dead?

   By PeterthePapercomPoser, March 17
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   • Aiwendil
   • April 3

2. The Orchestration Fence

   By humnab, December 1, 2005
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   • murphybridget
   • March 25

3. How do you come up with a good Theme?

   By Will Kirk, June 5, 2006
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   • murphybridget
   • March 24

4. What are your musical goals?

   By PeterthePapercomPoser, March 17
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   • Aw Ke Shen
   • March 23

5. Is composition easy or hard? What's your weakness?

   By PeterthePapercomPoser, January 31
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   • Polaris
   • March 15

6. What does this mean?

   By Nigel, September 16, 2007
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   • murphybridget
   • March 14

7. Is it wrong to compose and not being able to play it? 1 2

   By Jonathan, July 11, 2008
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   • murphybridget
   • March 12

8. two questions about solo violin in Sibelius 8 notation software

   By hyperaticism, February 25
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   • hyperaticism
   • March 10

9. It seems to me that this composer is not very appreciated by people of the now. 1 2 3 4

   By Rkmajora, September 28, 2007
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   • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
   • March 9

10. Bowing techinques

    By PhantomOftheOpera, April 24, 2009
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    • murphybridget
    • February 23

11. Innovative Instrumentation 1 2

    By keysguitar, July 19, 2010
    • 35 replies
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    • murphybridget
    • February 20

12. Who do you compose for? What do you expect?

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, January 18
    • 11 replies
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    • AngelCityOutlaw
    • February 2

13. Newbie question about some exercises in Piston's Harmony

    By hyperaticism, January 28
    • 8 replies
    • 367 views
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    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    • January 28

14. Irregular method of playing the Viola

    By ARCMusicPublishings, September 20, 2023
    • 3 replies
    • 478 views
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    • ARCMusicPublishings
    • January 27

15. Horn Transpositions

    By ARCMusicPublishings, January 20
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    • ARCMusicPublishings
    • January 27

16. How do you find meaning through music?

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, January 4
    • 5 replies
    • 498 views
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    • Aw Ke Shen
    • January 27

17. What do you think motivates people to review your music?

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, January 24
    • 3 replies
    • 409 views
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    • Aw Ke Shen
    • January 27

18. Why I compose music on paper

    By PeterthePapercomPoser, January 13
    • 3 replies
    • 773 views
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    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    • January 26

19. Your First Attempt on Composition?

    By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, November 24, 2023
    • 20 replies
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    • Aw Ke Shen
    • January 20

20. What Manuscript Paper Do You Use?

    By Black Orpheus, September 5, 2009
    • 23 replies
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    • LeeW
    • January 9

21. The "Mixing" Scam

    By AngelCityOutlaw, December 6, 2023
    • 7 replies
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    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    • December 14, 2023

22. Collection of microtonal chords

    By Ivan1791, December 2, 2023
    • 2 replies
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    • Ivan1791
    • December 3, 2023

23. Do you believe that different keys have different emotions? Why or why not? 1 2

    By aMusicComposer, July 25, 2019   

    • keys
    • music theory
    • 30 replies
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    • Rich
    • December 1, 2023

24. What do you feel when composing?

    By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, October 13, 2023
    • 12 replies
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    • gaspard
    • November 12, 2023

25. Get a composition degree in a short-term solution

    By SYS65, October 19, 2023
    • 3 replies
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    • SYS65
    • November 7, 2023