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We must assume that he's not getting into music just to be average. ;)

Since everything was covered so far by the preceding posts, let me ask a simple question: have you try any basic counter point exercise or try to write in basic forms (Binary and ternary) yet?

No Jonas, they are deadly rivals, but competition between them over the years has resulted in many improvements in both programs as they attempt to each copy the opposition's latest features. It is also possible to "translate" a piece written by one into the other, using a program called MusicMXL. Cheers, John.

that's my ringtone.

To me, most important is the usage of "good old fashioned" elements of music: rhythm, melody, harmony or at least some sort of vertical organization. I generally like anything within contemporary idiom (atonality, aleatorics, clusters, sound layers) if music is active, energetic and has enough contrasts. My favourite composers of contemporary music are Olivier Messiaen, Henri Dutilleux, Marc-Andre Dalbavie, Erkki Sven Tüür, Magnus Lindberg, some works of Einojuhani Rautavaara. I don't like composers such as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Earl Brown, Karlheinz Stockhausen because most of their compositions are static and boring.