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==== Initial Composition Student Interview - Listed here are topics/questions the student composer and his/her teacher might discuss to determine the best way to use their time together. ====

==== Ten Important Questions for Young Composers - Use these questions to help you decide why you're writing what you're writing and what you should be working on (i.e. refining, adding, editing, deleting, and how you might do that). ====

==== Various Modes and Scales: Pentatonic, Symmetrical Scales ("Modes of Limited Transposition" such as whole tone, diminished), "Church" Modes, podcast about Modal vs. Tonal music, pandiatonicism. Other related terms: bitonality, polytonality, polymodality, isochords/symmetrical harmony. ====

Interview with Brian Balmages - Scott Yoho interviews BB on MakeMusic's Finale blog.

Form and Function - Film music composer Alain Mayrand shares the value of seeing the whole and having a plan on his blog.