>>This can hardly be an accident, and it smacks of craftsmanship rather than miraculous genius to me. Anyway, I hope I haven't killed this horse. Music and poetry derive so much from math and logic.<<
interesting posts bob s... i agree, music is math...great songwriting is both art & craft, inspiration & perspiration...putting it all together into a structure that evokes emotion, intellectual thought, physical movement ... choosing words that tell a story while also rhyming naturally without sounding forced...this takes great art & craft...somewhere in all of this process is where genius (an overused word these days) emerges ... joni did it over & over & over again & deserves to be credited with genius imho... ******************************************** Kate Bennett: www.katebennett.com Sponsored by Polysonics/Atlantis Sound Labs Over the Moon- "bringing the melancholy world of twilight to life almost like magic" All Music Guide ********************************************