[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