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#composition

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What I try to impart to a musician is to really try to practice the instrument in a really sincere way. Learn as much about music as you possibly can. Learn composition. Study to try to create compositions of your own and put your own personal touch on your music.


Roscoe Mitchell


#composition #compositions #create #i #impart

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely.


Wilhelm Ostwald


#chemical #composition #compounds #conversely #experimental

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.


Steve Reich


#compositional #i #interested #itself #music

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?


John Philip Sousa


#central #composition #conductor #convey #does

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.


John Philip Sousa


#band #band leader #believe #compositions #country

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.


John Philip Sousa


#average #commonplace #compositions #conceived #false

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.


Jane Haddam


#college #college level #composition #editor #i

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.


Florence King


#disjointed #ephemeral #memories #nostalgia #true

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy.


Matsuo Bashō


#creating #haiku #japanese #poetry #zen

Attempts have been made from a study of the changes produced by mutation to obtain the relative order of the bases within various triplets, but my own view is that these are premature until there is more extensive and more reliable data on the composition of the triplets.


Francis Crick


#bases #been #changes #composition #data






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