his site tracks the composition of a new piece of music for the Virtual Concert project. It is organized by month and follows four ideas central to the process: Theme, Instrumentation, Improvisation, and Composer-as-Enabler. Throughout the site you will be able to:

Listen to the participants speak about the process

Hear the piece in several stages of development

Read and hear what the composer says about the process

Interact with the music to learn how a composer makes choices

Link to other resources

 

Choose from the list of stories above to see what the composer and musicians say about the process of creating music. Throughout the stories we track four recurring issues central to the process: Improvisation, Theme and Inspiration, Instrumentation, and Composer-as-enabler.
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