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There Are Two Types of Composers

August 17, 2010 Robert Paterson
Duo for Flute and Marimba - Excerpt

Duo for Flute and Marimba - Excerpt

There are two types of composers: those that revise, and those that do not. I am not referring to making minor corrections—a wrong note here or there or whatever—but major changes. like ripping apart and re-constructing sections, adding new notes and changing lots of dynamics and articulations.

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In Misc- Ideas, Music Tags Boulez, duo for flute and marimba, ives, music revision, rouse, ruders, schoenberg, sibelius, stravinsky, sun trio
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