It’s not every day that a doctoral thesis is written focusing solely on one’s compositions. However, this is what has recently happened to one of my piano collections, ‘No Words Necessary’. ‘No Words Necessary’, which was published by Schott in 2018, has been under musical and theoretical scrutiny in South Korea, where pianist and teacher…
Tag: Pedagogical Piano Music
Composing Piano Music: John McLachlan
This week my guest writer is Irish composer and music examiner John McLachlan. A prolific composer, John has written for many genres, including a substantial collection of pedagogical piano works, some of which have been selected for inclusion in the syllabus of the Royal Irish Academy of Music. Here he writes about his music and…