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    • Willow Willow
    K.I.S.S.
    Michael Allen
    • Nov 26, 2019

    K.I.S.S.

    It's snowing to beat hell here (thanks for the euphemism, dad) and I'm on a week away from my day gig, chipping away at some BIG...
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    Another possible approach
    Michael Allen
    • Sep 23, 2018

    Another possible approach

    I might have tried to transcribe something as awesome as the first movement of Mahler's 5th Symphony decades ago - I might have even...
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    Top of the Muffin to you!
    Michael Allen
    • Aug 5, 2018

    Top of the Muffin to you!

    Musings on Copyright
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    Get your head out of the score
    Michael Allen
    • Jul 28, 2018

    Get your head out of the score

    Conductors who can't lift their head out of the score are a pet peeve. It usually means they don't trust their own understanding of the...
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    Michael Allen
    • Nov 9, 2017

    Bass Doubling

    I wrote something yesterday that was confusing even to me when I read it again today. Mea culpa. The offending sentence was: Wright notes...
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    Willow, Willow
    Michael Allen
    • Aug 26, 2017

    Willow, Willow

    Many years ago, I was walking past Bill Stanley’s trombone studio at CU Boulder and heard a most remarkable thing. I stuck my head in the...
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    Huzzah! to the Queen's Chapel
    Michael Allen
    • Aug 25, 2017

    Huzzah! to the Queen's Chapel

    Renaissance keyboard music is really fun to arrange. The simplicity of the music (well, at least some of it) lends itself to crafty...
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    Arranging with intent
    Michael Allen
    • Aug 16, 2017

    Arranging with intent

    Many years ago, my friend and colleague Bill Stanley (professor of trombone, University of Colorado at Boulder) pointed me towards an...
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    Writer's block
    Michael Allen
    • Aug 11, 2017

    Writer's block

    I wrote recently about starting with the bass line when beginning work on an arrangement. That is generally a true statement. However,...
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    Thorny textures
    Michael Allen
    • Aug 8, 2017

    Thorny textures

    For those that aren't familiar, Grainger frequently reworked his own compositions for instrumentations other than the original. Handel in...
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