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How to free our inner Mozart, Sama’ Abdulhadi or Stormzy
An impressive, jargon-free book that sets out to make music composition as easy as frying an egg... well almost
(L to R) Mozart in 1763-64, portrait by Jean-Baptiste Greuze; Sama’ Abdulhadi; Stormzy
[Stormzy by Frank Schwichtenberg/Creative Commons]
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