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Film Music as an Art in Its Own Right
For most of the last century, the quickest way to be taken a little less seriously as a composer was to be good at film music. I have…
Scoring Animation
Animation gives a composer something live-action rarely does: room. When a film has little dialogue and few real-world sounds, the music is not decoration laid over the story…
Music and Political Economy
Music and political economy may seem unrelated topics, especially for a composer, but government policy around the economy, which is full of political decisions and value judgements, determines…
Performing Handel’s Messiah under Christopher Hogwood: Reliving a Masterpiece
Christopher Hogwood's interpretation of Handel's Messiah was marked by a unique application of historical practices and the use of period instruments.
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