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On Teaching Composition

This essay articulates the writer's belief that a teacher's primary role, alongside helping a student listen deeply and critically to her/his own music, is to help develop and refine the kind of tools that would allow one to imagine more, with the goal of realizing one's own personal artistic vision. It also argues that a composer's art and craft, even in the third millennium with its transformative cultural changes and technological advances, will be greatly enhanced by the study of, and deep immersion in, art music by the great masters of past eras.