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Producers have realized that public taste in music has risen, and we are now conducting a test which will eventually lead to the writing of entire modern operas for the screen. When that day comes, composers will accept the motion picture as a musical form equal to the opera or the symphony.
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Other, far fewer, directors are more like the composer - conceptualizing the piece, scoring it, distributing its musical lines among a range of registers, chords, and instruments.
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You're not limited to a song structure, as you are in pop music. For a song, you've got an intro, a chorus, a bridge, a verse, a chorus, et cetera, and you're done. This is completely open to going left or right at any point. A scoring composer isn't bound to any genre. Scott Gordon
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This is entirely driven by two composers who changed music. That being said, if Jim came to me and said I need Schoenberg and Stockhausen, or Schoenberg and Milton Babbitt, I probably would have had a different willingness for proceeding with the plan.
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The musical world boasts many composers who marched to their own drummer. We have chosen three of the most determined, and in each case their music reflects the struggle of the human experience.
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A friend of mine asked me to open a sports bar in London, and the media were there. This fella started interviewing me, thinking I was Sean Bean.
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During the course of a year I work with a lot of different Indian musicians, often in situations where I'm playing more of a classical Indian performance, ... At the same time, as a writer and composer I'm trying to figure out how to bring in some of the abstraction that exists in jazz.
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Aretha is still the best singer in the world, bar none. She finds meanings in lyrics that the composers didn't even know they had.
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Any sacred text comes alive in a unique way when it is sung, and composers from Gregorian chant to the present day have known that. David Chalmers
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As far as rock groups, I really like Stone Temple Pilots. As for classical composers, it's Bach. I love Paganini, too, the Italian composer who would break strings during a performance and finish playing on just one string. Someone I would have loved to play with is Jimi Hendrix. Matt Schulze
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Already very early I thought of a microphone as a musical instrument, like a bow or like a percussion instrument, whatever you use. Karlheinz Stockhausen
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In chess, computers show that what we call 'strategy' is reducible to tactics, ultimately. It only looks creative to us. They are still just glorified cash registers. This should make us feel uncomfortable, whether or not we think computers will ever be good composers of music or artistic painters. Tyler Cowen
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As I say, this is a new secret science, to master the emptiness and turn it into something that is filled with sound and visual images.
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Dietz and Schwartz have sort of fallen by the wayside a little bit, and they are up there with Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. They are the finest of the revue composers - their stuff is so good and so strong.
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Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. Terry Teachout
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Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are. Rudy Vallee
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Composers and lyricists are not responsible for storyline and casting. One can imagine actors shouldering this responsibility, since they charge for half the film. But producers never ask actors to share the losses. Instead, they train their guns on composers and lyricists. Shaan
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Composers and lyricists are making songs that are approved by the producers and directors.
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And with every work I have tried to expand my experience, moving sound and space, and finding new ways of superimposing different tempos and rhythms.
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An interesting practice in music since the atonal period of the Viennese composers has been the widespread use of a few tiny pitch cells.
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There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. Evelyn Glennie
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There's no crusade here, but I am trying to slip classical music in through the back door, ... I think people can talk about classical composers in the same breath as contemporary music. All music is good music. William Orbit
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The transition from one form of percussion to another and the ways in which it's possible to blur those distinctions is quite interesting. Gavin Bryars
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I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style.
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It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
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This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music. Michael Tippett
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But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. Michael Tilson Thomas
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This show will make you laugh, it will make you cry and will leave no question in your mind as to why Puccini is hailed as one of the greatest opera composers of all time.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music. Brian Eno
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The more dollars the studio producers put in, the less freedom we have. If the budget hits $100m, they get scared - they'll take the existing score of a successful movie and expect composers to copy it, like wallpaper. The biggest challenge for any composer in Hollywood is to be as creative as possible within those boundaries. A. R. Rahman
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We have something by every famous composer and a mother lode of American music.
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I've seen composers work on 30 films at one go. So, eight or even 10 albums in a year is no big deal. Pritam Chakraborty
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right. Ralph Vaughan Williams