I recently decided to try to encap­su­late major lessons I learned from other com­posers’ music over the years into short one-liners. Sort of like the per­son­al­ity sur­veys that go around Face­book, but more about the musi­cal per­son­al­ity of com­posers (per­haps my per­son­al­ity more than the peo­ple listed here). Any­way, this is what I came up with, in no par­tic­u­lar order: Con­tinue read­ing “What Com­posers Taught Me” »