Becoming a Composer

Becoming a Composer

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Publisher's Synopsis

I am a composer. A composer of classical music. Quite honestly I am not quite sure how that happened to a girl born in Belize and brought up in Tottenham . . . It is clear that composing found me. It crept up on me and wouldn't let me out of its grasp.

Now a leading international composer and a singer-songwriter, Errollyn Wallen is as much at home in jazz and pop as in the classical world. Part memoir, Becoming a Composer offers an intriguing glimpse into the mind and motivation of a composer and covers aspects of Wallen's sometimes troubled childhood, and her experiences of growing up as a black composer in the UK. It includes a collection of observations, diaries following the progress of new works and essays and seeks to shed light on the way a composer sees and hears the world.

Book information

ISBN: 9780571370139
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Pub date:
DEWEY: 781.3
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 462g
Height: 224mm
Width: 142mm
Spine width: 30mm