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“I think we really have to ask ourselves, are we really using to children to promote ourselves?”

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Nancy Jo Sales is an American author known for her research on youth culture and the impact of media. Her work delves into the behaviors and experiences of teenagers in the digital age. more

“I can't say that there's a common practice that has to do with pitch language or with the way pieces are put together because today, anything is fair game. As far as I'm concerned, my own common practice is a piece that engages the attention of listeners from beginning to end, and doesn't rely on or expect the listener to zone out.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“I think you'll find a significant number of people who decide not to enter competitions because their music just won't fit in that world.”

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“I think of myself as an experimentalist even though much of my music sounds logical and normal, in a sense.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“The experimentation that I do has a lot to do with tunes and pitches and ways that melodies are put together.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“I came up in the '60s; that was a time when there was a revolution going on in music. Stravinsky had become a twelve-tone composer; even Aaron Copland was writing twelve-tone pieces at that time!”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“I think of myself as experimenting with different ways of structuring pieces. A lot of it has to do with the computer, of course.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“Even today, I notice that some of my pieces are explicitly tonal; there are actually tonics and dominants. And then there are pieces that are not tonal. I tend to think that there's a dichotomy that has to do with the way pitches are structured.”

Thinking Way Today Pieces Dichotomy

Author:Paul Lansky

“Sometimes I imagine that there's a binary division going on in contemporary practice that has to do with chromatic versus diatonic. I notice that I tend to listen in a diatonic sense, that I register a pitch as a member of a diatonic scale, even in a non-tonal context.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“It's very interesting for me to listen to music with my wife. She's not a musician but she very often makes comments about pieces in ways that are similar to what I'm thinking.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

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