Emotions
is one of my earliest writings – high school days, in fact. Back then I wasn’t too concerned with
musical form. Nowadays I do try to
keep the structure of the piece in the back of my mind as I’m writing, but I
must admit that sometimes I fall back into old habits and just let the music
carry me away.
Monday, July 23, 2012
Emotions
Straight out of high school I headed for Brigham
Young University. My first
semester, fall of 1980, I took a composition class with Murray Boren. I remember him telling me that when I
write music I need to stay with just one theme. He could take one of my compositions and divide it into
three separate pieces. My
justification at the time was that I didn’t want the listener to get
bored. He was probably
scrutinizing this piece when he made that observation.
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This is one of my favorite, FAVORITE songs to listen to at night going to sleep :) :) :)
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