If you think this was an isolated incident, let me paraphra… - Jon Appleton

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If you think this was an isolated incident, let me paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemoller, "First they came for the music faculty and I did not speak out because I was not a musician. Then they came for the psychologists and I did not speak out because I was not a psychologist. Then they came for the biologists and I did not speak out because I was not a biologist. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me."

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Jon Howard Appleton (January 4, 1939 – January 30, 2022) was a composer, author and Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music at Dartmouth College.

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Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.

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