Noboru Inoue wrote: >I think... Music is not composed by "composers", but discovered by them >from space. As a sculptor finds a statue of Budda hidden in a tree. This somewhat resembles the contention of the 20th-century Jewish philospher Heschel who believes that each composer taps a different part of God's musical reservoir. Chris Bonds: >To bring this back to music: from whence cometh the creative impulse? >As a composer you don't say, "I am going to think of a melody, or a chord >progression," and then think of it and write it down. Sometimes you do. >These things spring unbidden from the brain, and another part of the brain >says "I ought to write that down, it's pretty good." More often in the movies than in reality. Aaron J. Rabushka [log in to unmask] http://www.cowtown.net/users/arabushk/