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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Experiences as an Adjudicator — Part 1

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Today's post is about experiences I have had as a competition judge, and as a member of commissioning juries, with suggestions on how to...
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

The Value of Accolades, and a Personal Anecdote…

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In my previous entry ( Winning and Losing as Impostors ), I wrote about the competitive aspect of composition — namely commissioning and com...
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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Winning and Losing as Impostors

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If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same… ( Rudyard Kipling , " If— " 12–13) ...
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Thursday, November 7, 2013

"Composers Who Couldn't Finish What They Started"

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Wow.  It's been a long time, but here goes:  An attempt to resume regular blogging. I was motivated to write something after reading ...
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Sunday, February 24, 2013

Playing With Expectations (Part Three)

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My previous blog on this topic ( part two ) just scratched the surface in exploring ways in which Beethoven plays with listener expectation...
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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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