"Over the past year, you've heard a lot of new music-- be it in your own score study, concerts, or studio class. Is there a piece that stands out to you as a work that you really learned from, or took something from? Discuss such a piece and how it influenced you, your work, or your views on music."
Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring has definitely been the largest influence on me in the past year. This is mainly due to a paper I wrote on the piece for my music history class. It showed me how to write outside the time signature. I still put everything in a somewhat normal time signature be it 4/4 or 5/8 but I do not bind the music to measured phrases based on the time signature. The time signature is only there for rehearsal purposes, but in no way should be obviously apparent through listening. It has been very freeing.
This also ended up applying to the tonality of my pieces in an almost opposite way. I no longer write in a key signature because of the implication. If it happens to fall into a key for a short amount of time then I'm fine with it, but I don't bother to put up a key signature because soon enough I will throw in something different.
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