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...write your answers in the text box below. How many works by women composers do you regularly perform/does your organisation regularly perform? How aware are you of women composers? How many can you name? How many of their compositions do you know/regularly listen to? Discussion There are no right or wrong answers here, and your responses will be very personal to you. You...

...writes music down, taking his/her time, sketching and revising until the music is as near perfect as it can be. The improviser creates music instantly, without sketches or corrections. In the words of Willi Apel, an earlier dictionary editor, improvisation is ‘the art of performing music as an immediate reproduction of simultaneous mental processes, that is, without the...

...write novels of English high life, and do something to redeem myself a little from the disgrace I had fallen into with my fellow-plebeians by always writing of common Americans, like themselves, and never grandes dames or ideal persons, or people in the best society. But I did not want to go home at once, or turn back from going to Durham through that pleasant landscape,...