#compose

I frequently compose out the entire metric structure of a piece in modified cyclic form, where each cyclic revolution undergoes some form of 'variation' much as if measure lengths were concrete musical 'material.' ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too. ↗

— John Corigliano

#because #composer #every #glad #grew

The structural thinking I use in the concert hall is unnecessary to most film projects, and most film composers make better use of the enormous range of pop and other materials and techniques required of them than I probably would, faced with the same challenge. ↗

— John Corigliano

#challenge #composers #concert #concert hall #enormous

I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. ↗

— Edgard Varese

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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#because #characters #charged #choose #composer

Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#country #important #most #northeast #our

When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#composer #first #four #i #i remember

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear. ↗

— Billy Gibbons

#composed #fear #feeling #finesse #like

Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#chords #composer #directors #distributing #far

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them. ↗

— Maurice Jarre

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