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Miggy Torres

What Can Choral Music Be?—Understanding, Harnessing, and Annihilating Cliché

Avoiding cliché can often be a self-defeating objective. Understanding the Semiotics of cliché, however, can prove extremely powerful.

16 min readFeb 14, 2020

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What Can Choral Music Be?—Understanding, Harnessing, and Annihilating Cliché

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Miggy Torres

What Can Choral Music Be?—Text Setting as Derivative Work

By creating works that are essentially decorations of other artists’ texts, do we give up too much artistic freedom?

13 min readJan 31, 2020

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What Can Choral Music Be?—Text Setting as Derivative Work

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Miggy Torres

What Can Choral Music Be? — Problems With Text Setting

The act of text setting is a ubiquitous part of the choral compositional process, but does it present æsthetic problems?

16 min readJan 28, 2020

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What Can Choral Music Be? — Problems With Text Setting

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Miggy Torres

What Can Choral Music Be?—Defining & Defeating Defaults

What “default settings” do we use in our music, and how can we be sure we’re making deliberate artistic choices?

20 min readJan 23, 2020

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What Can Choral Music Be?—Defining & Defeating Defaults

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Miggy Torres

What Can Choral Music Be? — The Product-Process Duality

Do “default settings” in the creative process affect the structure of the final work? Are product and process the same thing?

11 min readJan 19, 2020

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What Can Choral Music Be? — The Product-Process Duality

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Miggy Torres

What Can Choral Music Be? — Stop Writing Choral Music

Do you wanna know the secret to writing good choral music? Stop writing Choral Music.

16 min readJan 9, 2020

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What Can Choral Music Be? — Stop Writing Choral Music

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Miggy Torres

What Can Choral Music Be? — Introduction

The True Future of Choral Music

7 min readJan 8, 2020

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What Can Choral Music Be? — Introduction

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Miggy Torres

Miggy Torres

Composer | Artist | Smashing realities together since 1992. www.miggytorres.com I write about music, aesthetics, and the creative process.

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