Recorded Talks
The LEAP from my degree to Professional Freelance Composer
UMBS Ultimate Music Business Summit
UMBS Ultimate Music Business Summit
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Discussing my musical background, current career, and how I'm supporting my family writing music!
How to prepare a portfolio for calls for scores, competitions, applications, etc.
FREE Online Resources
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears (online instrumentation manual)
https://isfee.music.indiana.edu/
Vienna Symphonic Library (online instrumentation manual)
https://www.vsl.info/en/academy/index
Great little instrumentation reference book (I still use use my copy!)
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Dictionary-Orchestration-Comprehensive-Orchestrators/dp/0739000217
Solo Rep to study
https://intranet.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/composition/solo-rep/solo-rep-list.html
Info on clarinet multiphonics!
https://heatherroche.net/
https://heatherroche.net/2018/09/13/27-easy-bb-clarinet-multiphonics/
https://isfee.music.indiana.edu/
Vienna Symphonic Library (online instrumentation manual)
https://www.vsl.info/en/academy/index
Great little instrumentation reference book (I still use use my copy!)
https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Dictionary-Orchestration-Comprehensive-Orchestrators/dp/0739000217
Solo Rep to study
https://intranet.music.indiana.edu/departments/academic/composition/solo-rep/solo-rep-list.html
Info on clarinet multiphonics!
https://heatherroche.net/
https://heatherroche.net/2018/09/13/27-easy-bb-clarinet-multiphonics/
Read about Dr. Taylor's background and typical daily schedule as a composer here:
http://bgindependentmedia.org/composer-ben-taylor-brings-together-music-entrepreneurship-to-create-a-blessed-life/
You might want to occasionally check this resource for cool opportunities/contests:
https://composersforum.org/resources/opportunities
And another great one:
https://live-composers.pantheonsite.io/
http://bgindependentmedia.org/composer-ben-taylor-brings-together-music-entrepreneurship-to-create-a-blessed-life/
You might want to occasionally check this resource for cool opportunities/contests:
https://composersforum.org/resources/opportunities
And another great one:
https://live-composers.pantheonsite.io/
Quotes
"I experience a sort of terror when at the moment of setting to work and finding myself before the infinitude of possibilities that present themselves I have the feeling that everything is permissible to me. My freedom will be so much greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles... the more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self to the chains that shackle the spirit."
- Stravinsky - Poetics of music
“No two pieces are composed in the same way, and with every new piece I must learn the creative process all over again.
[Inspiration] comes from patience and a lot of hard work. You simply have to put in the hours. Those who tend to make up all kinds of excuses for a piece that isn't going well are often denying the single fact that they aren't putting in the time. I love American composer John Adams' comparison of the creative artist to that of an athlete. You stay in shape through discipline and regular activity, and if you get out of shape, it takes time and patience to get back in.
On an ideal workday, I rise shortly before sunrise, have a light breakfast, and make a hasty escape out to my backyard studio before the daily concerns of normal life have a chance to overtake me. I usually produce my best work before lunchtime, and I rarely compose at night. I prefer pencil and paper with my piano nearby. I also spend a lot of time singing through my music and playing it on my trumpet, not so much to hear it but to feel it.”
- Frank Ticheli
“Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.”
- George Gershwin
“Composing is like painting a house with a Q-tip.”
- Quincy Jones
“Why go with your fifth bad idea when you can go with your first?”
- Hans Zimmer
“...the most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matter except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this so important? Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid.
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.”
-Steven Pressfield
- Stravinsky - Poetics of music
“No two pieces are composed in the same way, and with every new piece I must learn the creative process all over again.
[Inspiration] comes from patience and a lot of hard work. You simply have to put in the hours. Those who tend to make up all kinds of excuses for a piece that isn't going well are often denying the single fact that they aren't putting in the time. I love American composer John Adams' comparison of the creative artist to that of an athlete. You stay in shape through discipline and regular activity, and if you get out of shape, it takes time and patience to get back in.
On an ideal workday, I rise shortly before sunrise, have a light breakfast, and make a hasty escape out to my backyard studio before the daily concerns of normal life have a chance to overtake me. I usually produce my best work before lunchtime, and I rarely compose at night. I prefer pencil and paper with my piano nearby. I also spend a lot of time singing through my music and playing it on my trumpet, not so much to hear it but to feel it.”
- Frank Ticheli
“Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.”
- George Gershwin
“Composing is like painting a house with a Q-tip.”
- Quincy Jones
“Why go with your fifth bad idea when you can go with your first?”
- Hans Zimmer
“...the most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matter except sitting down every day and trying. Why is this so important? Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid.
When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.”
-Steven Pressfield
Composition Process Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vSoUxGpLgG1RCpOxeuM3wGeHFGriUOFD-_KpRiyKzkw/edit?usp=sharing
Composition Workshop Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ee-QCW7tY73Y-0bkgdKLewQmx9u2Jml4-bronmGuyNQ/edit?usp=sharing
Composition Process and Work Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wf8B7BB-Tmd6k3JsGnnMYgJfKuG4obElUixU0OazNbE/edit?usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vSoUxGpLgG1RCpOxeuM3wGeHFGriUOFD-_KpRiyKzkw/edit?usp=sharing
Composition Workshop Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ee-QCW7tY73Y-0bkgdKLewQmx9u2Jml4-bronmGuyNQ/edit?usp=sharing
Composition Process and Work Slides
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wf8B7BB-Tmd6k3JsGnnMYgJfKuG4obElUixU0OazNbE/edit?usp=sharing