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Is Our Understanding of Musical Talent Completely Wrong? There’s always been a divide when we talk about musical talent. Many people look at specific “geniuses”—think Prince, Charlie Parker, Stevie Ray Vaughan—and see their incredible music as evidence that talent is something rare and innate, embodied in certain people. There’s no shortage of stories and legends […]

As a relatively new composer deeply inspired by the late Romantic style, I’ve recently found myself intrigued by partimento, an instructional technique used to teach composition in the 17th and 18th centuries. Although I’m primarily a violinist, I’ve dabbled in piano and can work my way through pieces like Chopin’s C# minor Waltz with enough […]