[log in to unmask] writes:
>Music isn't composed directly from raw emotion, except in those cheap
>pseudo-biographical films. It is an intellectual as well as an emotional
>experience. I don't even see how it would be possible for a composer to
>write under the influence of a strong emotional surge. People in the heat
>of emotion are seldom able to organize their work.
At the risk of endorsing a firebrand, Mimi's spot on. The same might be
said about all good poetry and fiction, I think. Somebody once referred to
poetry as emotion recalled in contemplation. If anybody wants to correct
the lacuna of my decaying synpapsis, feel free; but I think it sums up
compositional procedure quite well.
Barry Brenesal