What is your Composing Workflow?
Hello Composers of Reddit!
I'm very interested in hearing about other writers approach writing their music. I know this sort of thing must be different according to what instrument/ensemble one is writing for.
In my experience it is very time consuming to write at a piano. I find that I waste too much time banging out a sketch over and over without really making critical decisions about it. For choral works, I write the melody humming to myself, find the chord progression that I like. I admit that this part is done at the piano, but it is very purposeful and doesn't take as much time. I write the other voice lines at a desk since counterpoint can be written as a work of the intellect.
I've heard the stories of famous composers who would write straight through without instruments as a reference (Bach, Mozart, Stravinsky, and more I'm sure). Does anyone here work like this? how do you do this?
Excited to hear your thoughts!