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Monday, February 6, 2012

Blog Index — Organized by Topic (® 2012-February)

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Below is an index of most blogs posted thus far. I omitted entries that I didn't think would be very interesting or relevant, such as r...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

How much theory do you have to know in order to be a composer?

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This is a question that I am sometimes asked, and it came up recently in a conversation I had with Karim Al-Zand , the visiting composer for...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Bob Ross, Empowering the Masses, and Fear of Failure

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I recently watched a PBS documentary on Bob Ross  (no relation), who gained fame as the creator and host of The Joy of Painting , a tel...
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Monday, August 1, 2011

On the perception of progress

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How do you measure progress when composing?  I sometimes set durational goals for myself, like thirty seconds of new music every day. The va...
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Friday, July 29, 2011

Oh, the pain of it all!

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Is composition sometimes painful for you? A composer I know once told me that you have be a masochist to be a composer. That might be ove...
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Clark Ross
I am a composer of music for soloists, chamber groups, orchestra, voice, and electronics, as well as a guitarist and professor of Composition and Theory (since 1992) at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. I teach Composition, 2nd-year Music Theory (chromatic harmony and large form classical music), Renaissance Counterpoint, Baroque Counterpoint, and Music Technology. I have also taught Electronic Music, Orchestration, 20th-Century Techniques, Music History, Ear-Training, and Classical Guitar. I welcome feedback from all non-spam bots! If you have any suggestions of topics you'd like me to cover in future posts, please let me know!
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