The Composer of Appalachian Spring Understood the Hallmarks of Music Composition

Born on November 14, 1900, Copland created quintessential American music. What he knew that other composers didn't was how to make the most of his intuitive musical ideas.

Most composers fail to understand that it's not the study of music theory or counterpoint that will make you a composer. It's the method used to train these faculties that matters. For example, you can learn to compose using quartal and quintal harmony, but how would you employ that in an original way? It's already been done, so it can't truly be original.

The musical melodies and ideas that come to you are typically as natural as an Appalachian Spring. You don't need to apply the tenets of music theory or contrapuntal systems to your music. Rather, you need to learn how to hear music in the right way, and you need to learn how to discover your own system.

When you study with me, it's not that you will end up applying a system to your musical works. That goes against the very nature of music, which is to create natural and original music. When you have a system, you lose something in the musical work. No, this is not what I want for you. I teach composers how to assimilate knowledge so that it comes out naturally.

Think of it like this. When you were learning to ride a bike, you likely needed training wheels at first. The knowledge of how to ride a bike wasn't in your memory yet. As you gradually got better, the wheels came off. You are still riding the same bike but no longer thinking about how to ride the bike.

This is what my program teaches you, and it's something that composers like Aaron Copland understood. When knowledge becomes second nature, you can do anything. However, composing music has nothing to do with learning music theory, counterpoint, orchestration, and other theoretical concepts; it has everything to do with the process and manner in which you learn.

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