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Pablo Massa wrote:
>Is the composition of a fugue (the most obvious example of musical
>"craft") a pure rational or mental process?. I am tempted to say that it's
>not: it seems to be less the resolution of an equation than an "intuitive"
>process in some way. How could Bach improvise a fugue?. It's true that a
>fugue has some standard and schematic elements that are often regarded (or
>not) by the composer, but there are also, in the process of composition,
>certain moments of "nirvana", in which he doesn't know exactly what he's
>doing, as a painter with the nose too near to the canvas. ...
This is very well put. Unfortunately, I can think of nothing to add to
make the point any more cogent.
As a young teenager, I feel in love with the fugues of Bach -- especially
those written for organ. I had absolutely no idea what a fugue, a subject,
a counter-subject, an episode were at the time. I just enjoyed the sound
that all of those notes made.
Dave Pitzer
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