Music Of The Great Composers --

Benjamin Cutter-Part 6 The Road To Mastery The road to mastery in musical composition is a long one. To go through it worthily means to possess an intellect of no mean order. The requirements in the way of concentration, imagination and unflagging doing, are fully equal to those made by the higher mathematics. But taken early and carried along sensibly, the boy of gifts, of whom alone we write, learns his harmony in two or three years' time, learns to handle chords, to..