What is a composer?
Q: What is a composer?
A: A composer is someone who writes (composes) music.
Q: How do some composers work?
A: Some composers work by writing music down on paper, which is known as 'written notation'. Classical music writers and writers for TV and movie music usually write this way so that an orchestra or other players can read the music and play it.
Q: What is improvisation?
A: Improvisation means inventing the music as you play it. Jazz musicians are usually excellent at improvising, although it cannot be written down so each time it is different.
Q: How do popular and rock or soul musicians compose their songs?
A: Popular and rock or soul musicians often don't read and write music down; instead they compose their songs on a guitar or piano. Cole Porter and Irving Berlin usually composed at the piano.
Q: Who writes some songs?
A: Some songs are written by two or more people working together to write them; one person may write the music while another writes the lyrics.
Q: Who wrote folk songs?
A: Folk songs were composed many years ago, but no one knows who wrote them.
