Ableton Forum

Do you have a top 5 of favorite composers?

Here is mine:

1. Chopin
2. Stravinsky
3. Schoenberg
4. Tchaikovsky
5. Beethoven

Honorable mention:
6. Wagner
7. Korsakov

I think that it is important to identify with the music. Don't go too far away from separating an intended effect with a true outcome. Just call it evolution. Try to keep where you want to go and where you are 'in the same boat', eventually you'll get there you just need to go through the different ...

Just wondering if anyone studied Nicolas Slonimsky's work: 'Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns'; and what they thought of it.

The piano roll and the written music observation is a good one. Knowing one you should know the other. Definitely piano roll cannot be read like sheet music and certainly it is more difficult to be a scribe of piano roll music then written music. I like the expressive quality of written music. Part ...

Who believe in the metronome when in live performance or as an overall governor of musical thought, whom find the metronome as not necessary to the transcendent thought that might dip between 3/8, 4/4, and 4/16 time? Is this some sort of mannerist question who defies classicist thought, I'm just cur...

Does anyone choose to continue writing in the tonal theory sheet music style when they know the technology has beaten paper with buttons and such. has anyone an affinity for paper seeing that as a school child they were most likely forced to write their name on paper times when they necessarily did ...