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1. The Orchestra And Its Reluctant Use Of Brass

   By gigeorge17371, March 8, 2012   

   • verdi
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   • gigeorge17371
   • March 28, 2012

2. What Is/are Your Favourite Obscure/obsolete Instrument(S)?

   By TJS, March 17, 2012
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   • BenPritchard
   • November 13, 2012

3. Unintentional Plagiarism

   By quaoquarx, November 1, 2012
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   • skyy38
   • October 17, 2013

4. The Reality Of The Situation

   By Plutokat, June 4, 2013   

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   • mark styles
   • July 19, 2013

5. Thomas Goss On Orchestration

   By Samulis, August 8, 2013
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   • Morivou
   • June 8, 2014

6. "flow" Of A Piece

   By renjer, September 21, 2013   

   • beginner questions
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   • renjer
   • September 25, 2013

7. Feeling Of Empty Compositions.

   By Kamil Adamčík, June 3, 2014
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   • U238
   • June 5, 2014

8. Combining 2Nd And 3Rd Species Counterpoint - Can This Tone Leap?

   By ansthenia, May 10, 2015
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   • wayne-scales
   • June 5, 2015

9. Is This A Good Melody?

   By pianistforever238, August 2, 2015
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   • SimenN
   • November 13, 2015

10. What are the rules for breathing for the wind instruments? How long can they continuously play?

    By danuniversal, June 26, 2016   

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    • robinjessome
    • June 27, 2016

11. The Future of Music

    By Ravels Radical Rivalry, February 22, 2017
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    • SSC
    • April 1, 2017

12. 20th century music thread, go!

    By SSC, October 29, 2009
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    • Anders
    • October 30, 2009

13. What Does This Mean?

    By SergeOfArniVillage, November 1, 2009
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    • HeckelphoneNYC
    • November 2, 2009

14. Genetically Evolved Music?

    By lof, November 13, 2009
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    • calle
    • February 4, 2010

15. Check your melodies for...."influence"

    By MariusChamberlin, March 21, 2011
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    • skyy38
    • April 29, 2011

16. Whats this compositional device Bartok uses?

    By Alex0102030405, April 22, 2011
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    • jrcramer
    • May 12, 2011

17. Self-Gauging Growth as a Composer

    By jawoodruff, November 14, 2011   

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    • Austenite
    • December 6, 2011

18. How Do You Know Which Genre You Write In?

    By Rosenskjold, January 3, 2012
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    • Sojar Voglar
    • February 8, 2012

19. The Realities Of Exceling As A Composer

    By composerorganist, February 23, 2012   

    • composing
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    • composerorganist
    • February 28, 2012

20. Musical Rebirth Project

    By jthargis, March 4, 2012   

    • musical rebirth
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    • jthargis
    • March 6, 2012

21. Look And Feel Of Cutaway Scores?

    By nikolas, August 31, 2012
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    • tuohey
    • September 1, 2012

22. Where Can I Find Film Scores?

    By p7rv, November 29, 2012
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    • Ken320
    • December 6, 2012

23. What Is Improvisation?

    By gigeorge17371, January 29, 2013   

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    • serpderp
    • February 1, 2013

24. How Does Your Listening Repertoire Impact Your Composing?

    By luderart, July 7, 2013   

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    • Ken320
    • July 11, 2013

25. Counterpoint In Modern Or Jazz Harmony?

    By ansthenia, August 4, 2013
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    • U238
    • August 11, 2013