2009-03-31Practical Tips for score/part Preparation English ✍️Over the years of working with various musicians to perform my works, I have learned some very practical experiences that I wish other experienced com...
2009-03-24Finale Duplicated Chords Bug Fix English ✍️Finale has come a long way since it was first introduced. For me, it used to be only a typographical software -- I used to compose in a sequencer and...
2007-04-12Masculine Music vs. Feminine Music English ✍️A few weeks ago I was watching the video recording of an astonishing piano concert by Friedrich Gulda , Chick Corea , and Nicolas Economou (it was bro...
2006-11-13Musical Iconology 中文 ✍️ English ✍️I've been composing for a local flute ensemble. They have a quite particular instrumentation -- two piccolos, about ten C flutes, two alto flutes, a b...
2006-07-08Music as non-focal point 中文 ✍️ English ✍️I was organizing and rearranging some ceremonial music for a local Buddhist group and a search led me to this site about one of the earliest Taiwanese...
2006-04-24[QA] 我有沒有對莫札特的私房研究 中文 ✍️常有學生來信問我有沒有什麼私房資料提供給他們讓他們寫出一份與眾不同的報告。私房資料我倒是有很多,只是這些私房資料只對自己或是音樂經歷非常相近的人有意義。我給這些年輕學子的建議一直是,與其向我要魚,不如自己去弄根釣竿來。 On 4/24/06, xxx wrote: 你好,我是xx學院xx系的學生xx...
2006-01-24About Category Jazz 關於爵士樂區 中文 ✍️開始作曲以來,我一直為爵士樂的即興本質著迷。可以說,即興演奏,就是在當下作曲,而且在音樂發生時,能帶給演奏/作曲者自己許多驚奇。(雖然我這麼說,我仍覺得傳統作曲很重要。這大概是因為人心智的極限吧 ── 我們能想像一個交響樂團以即興的方式而能夠奏出像春之祭一樣結構複雜的作品嗎?)對我個人而言,即興精神...
2006-01-14About Category Studio 中文 ✍️ English ✍️I've been hoping to share my own experience in the music studio, but as time goes by, very little was done. However, my answers to friends' questions...
2006-01-03[QA] Language School Recording Tapes 中文 ✍️ English ✍️An English language after-school consulted me for a low-cost solution to record their classes for students to review at home. They are using a dual-de...
2005-04-19[QA] 共濟會與與魔笛 中文 ✍️...自從去年讀了《達文西密碼》這本暢銷大作之後,對於「共濟會」(freemasonry)這個組織頗感興趣(當然我曉得書中描述不全然真實),但因為我之前就知道關於「兄弟會」,後來得知歷史悠久的共濟會,會員中有許多赫赫有名的人物,政治人物、各種類別的藝術家等等,莫札特也是... xxx wrote:...