Q & A: How Can Composers Earn a Living?

00:00 Introduction 00:41 Pieces that changed my life 06:04 Thoughts on the ‘saturation’ movement 08:48 Music and other art forms 11:38 Is western music shallow? 14:59 Beauty and modernism 17:46 Are major keys happy and minor keys sad? 20:11 Music and the body 23:54 The techniques of today 26:40 Early modernist harmony 30:55 Finding your voice 32:03 What is good counterpoint? 34:05 Composition vs. tradition 36:47 Avant-garde composers and the listening experience 38:51 Will you make another al...