Bill Pirkle at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Len replies to me:
>
>> Bill Pirkle suggests:
>>
>>> Maybe there are no rules for writing good music, just rules about what to
>>> avoid doing.
>>
>> And I would bet that for every such rule, we could find a composer of
>> genius who broke that rule to wonderful effect.
>
>Interesting point. Maybe I should describe as a listener, a fictious
>composition that may have broken the rules I am referring to.
"These rules are just exersizes until student can allow follow his fancy
and allow his ear, the only true judge of music, to be his guide."
Fux - Gradus ad Parnassum
Stirling Newberry <[log in to unmask]>