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How do you explain the final chords of Sibelius 5?

The INGENUITY of Jacob Collier's Audience Choir

Gen Zs Splice-Sampling Visionary

Even Tchaikovsky Messed Up Sometimes...

Everyone Hates DISSONANCE. But Everyone's Wrong.

Composing for Yangqin

The King of Microrhythm

I tried to make Classical Vaporwave

Why great composers FEAR this in a score

My failing composing career and what turned it around

How to write music for instruments you CAN'T PLAY

The DALL-E 2 of MUSIC?

The Hidden Influence On Music

Spirals in Music

Alban Berg Wozzeck

5 Composers 1 Cathedral Organ

Classical Composer Analyzes Kendrick Lamar

How to Write a Melody (Over Chords)

The Saddest Concerto of All Time

Which Instrument is the Saddest?

8 Issues/Tips for Composers

Do Great Artists really Steal?

I OUTZAPPA'D ZAPPA????

A Beautiful Chopin Melody

Deconstructed

The Musical Wizardry behind the Jazz Turnaround

The problem with Pedestals

Electronic Music for ORCHESTRA

Rhapsody in Blue: How Gershwin broke the mold

Variation: 14 Ways to Compose with One Idea

Around The World in 80 COMPOSERS

Advanced Jazz Harmony Without the Indigestion

Is BACH The Most DANGEROUS Composer?

Taking The Licc Seriously - Converting a Meme for String Quartet

The Concerts Where They Dare Not Say My Name

5 COMPOSERS 1 THEME - 1 ORCHESTRA!

Terry Riley In C - Much More than Minimalism

How to Write for Orchestra | Q&A

Extreme Math Nerd Music (Indian-style)

The Emotional Impact Rooms Have on Music

Who's the Speediest Composer of All Time?

Classical Music isn't Dead. Nor is the CD

Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies

Accordion Superpowers

How to Modulate to G 1/2 Sharp

Best & Worst Endings in Classical Music

How John Adams Writes for Orchestra

Composer RAVEL completely destroys a waltz

5 Composers 1 Theme

Putting Bach to a Beat

John Adams - Modes Jazz Chords & Slonimsky

Why Copyright Law STEALS From Us All

The Rhythms of Tigran Hamasyan

How Beethoven Writes for Orchestra

MUSIC Vs. PATTERN

100 year old Polyrhythms Vs. New Polyrhythms

The Music that isn't Itself

How CORY HENRY Crafts a SOLO (Snarky Puppy LINGUS)

Why your MUSIC sounds 12 Shades of Grey

How GUMBOOTS Became my Most Successful Piece

Please the PUBLIC or please the ACADEMICS?

A brief history of 20th Century Classic Music (TETRIS-style)

Why Jazz Musicians Love Stravinsky

Choirs Canons & Loops

Why is there so little MELODY in new classical music

How to Write an Opera

Stravinsky & his Harmony

Making Beats out of Avant-Garde Music

Digital Effects in the Orchestra

The Mystery at the heart of Flamenco

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