A Comprehensive List of Symphonic Works by Black Composers
Philip Marten Philip Marten

A Comprehensive List of Symphonic Works by Black Composers

On February 1st of this year, I embarked on an unexpected project. It started with a simple Google search, "Black Composers," and grew into the sad realization that there is an entire macrocosm of classical and more specifically symphonic music — a kind of music that is most near to my heart and consciousness — that I was previously wholly and inexcusably ignorant to.

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Composing for the Internet
Philip Marten Philip Marten

Composing for the Internet

If a composer writes a note in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? The same could be asked when a composer writes a note on the internet.

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On Repeat
Philip Marten Philip Marten

On Repeat

Classical music has a repetition problem, and I'm not just referring to those pesky expositional repeats.

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