Schott Journal

 Germany

Schott Musik group is one of the world's leading music publishers, founded in 1770 by Bernhard Schott. They began publishing their modest newsletter Schott-Kurier in 1966. The magazine was then called Schott aktuell for many years, and since 2016 it has been renamed to Schott Journal, a free magazine published four times a year.

Schott Music is pleased to announce that it is now the worldwide representative of Munchkin Music for the orchestral and ensemble works of Frank Zappa, iconoclast, innovator, satirist, and above all, American composer. (read more)

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2020 November - 2021 January

No. 5

Frank Zappa 80
p 15


We remember Frank Zappa who would have 80 this year. He is best described in his own words, from The Real Frank Zappa Book where he elucidates his creative process: 'In my compositions, I employ a system of weights, balances, measured tensions and releases. The similarities are best illustrated by comparison to a Calder mobile: a multicolored whatchamacallit, dangling in space, that has big blobs of metal connected to pieces of wire, balanced ingeniously against little metal dingleberries on the other end.'

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