Harold Steinhardt wrote: > If an arranger or a composer does not know what it will sound > like BEFORE notating it, then they do not know their art/craft > very well. If they don't already know what it will sound like, > how do they determine what to write in the first place?
Notating one's pieces by having them in one's ear before the act is a valuable lesson for Composition 101. It's also very good because it helps to keep things organically real. But having done that, many composers, as a part of their studies, also learn to take those organic hunks and manipulate them in various ways. This in not a "new" art. It goes back way, way, before Bach, Couperin, A. Scarlatti, etc. It involves developing the ability to abstract the material into what is sometimes called "pure music". For instance, Bach would write a "Quartet" and not specify the instruments. Are you suggesting that he didn't know his craft? Philip Aker _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
