from Glendale, AZ
1950
Scottish composer • Classical composer • 21st-century classical composer • Opera composer • Hacker
Royal Academy of Music
Area of science:Musical composition
Specialty:Musical composer
His work is strongly influenced by traditional Scottish folk music; in particular, he has utilised the heterophonic style of Goidelic languages psalm-singing, and the piobaireachd form; he varies melody through ornament ( music ), as in traditional pibroch, and in their contour; he modifies instruments' tone-colours through alternative fingerings.