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Bill Pirkle:
>Having followed this thread I come away amazed that music is felt to be
>so indefinite and abstract that it is indefinable. How is it taught
>(composition)?. How can books be written about it?
From a composition teacher you can learn everything about music, except
how to compose it. This is far from being a paradox. That training is
necessary, but not sufficient. Perhaps you will never apply the rule of
parallel fifths in your works, but if you want to write for a choir or
for a large orchestra, you'll be in troubles if you never heard of it
and its consequences. Avoiding parallel fifths or eights, or writing
a good classical counterpoint gives a great agility to your pencil and
your general musical understanding, but doesn't makes you a composer.
Composition teaching is just like the training of a soldier in the army:
there you see a lot of guys running, singing stupid songs, jumping over
tires and climbing ropes...all this resembles a great kindergarten rather
than real war, but it's all that a soldier can learn out of the
battlefield.
Pablo Massa
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