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Further to my previous blog entry … If the 339 consecutive repetitions of a 2-bar rhythmic ostinato pattern in Ravel's Boléro (1928...

An ostinato is a musical idea that repeats immediately (as opposed to returning later in the composition) and persistently (it usually is r...

There are several music notation programmes available for computers and tablets, but the brands that I suspect most composers use are Final...

At the end of last semester, from about mid-November to mid-December, it seemed to me that I was writing more student recommendation/referen...

The expression, "ars longa, vita brevis," is a Latin translation of the first two lines of the Aphorismi  (Aphorisms) by the anci...