Composition

What is Composition? A Historical Perspective

December 24, 2022

People have been asking the question What is composition? and What is composition [in] music? with increasing frequency since Google started tracking trends in 2004.

How Beethoven Copied and Stole from Haydn

December 22, 2022

Composers in the time of Bach and Beethoven copied each other everywhere as a matter of course. Imitating models was how music was both taught and created.