In article <slrndbbb8q.dju.slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Albert Silverman <slvrmn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>On 2005-06-18, Lynn <lynnmonkVIRUSFREE@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Barry wrote...
>> "I don't have much in the way of a formal music education, but I love
to
>> compose. Because of my lack of theory I often struggle with my
>> compositions."
>>
>> I can't help you because I don't understand that kind of problem.
>
>You just go out there and compose. Right?
You really should try it some time, Albert. The shared experience would
put you in a better position to talk to everybody who does.
>> To me,
>> theory is a useful tool to explain WHY something sounds good, but it
has no
>> real use in the actual CREATION of something that sounds good. Unless,
of
>> course, you want to copy what has already been done.
>
>Just like you do not need to understand or be able to competently use the
>English language to write an intelligible book. Right?
>>
>> The real secret of compostition is following what your ears and your
heart
>> tell you. Some of the best composers in history never had any formal
music
>> training either, so you are in good company!
>
>Just like the real secret of writing a book is getting a computer with a
>good spelling checker, and hopefully a grammar checker, thus relieving
you
>from any necessity at all to understand the English language, its
grammar,
>its phrasing, its nuance, etc., etc., etc. Right?
>
> > > Let your soul decide. :o)
>
>You mean: "Let your ignorance decide". Right?
>
>
>Albert Silverman
>(Al is in Wonderland!)
>where understanding is irrelevant
>and ignorance rains
>
Indeed, Al, your ignorance of musical composition can only be fixed
by your own effort to compose.
--
Matthew H. Fields http://www.umich.edu/~fields
Music: Splendor in Sound
To be great, do better and better. Don't wait for talent: no such thing.
Brights have a naturalistic world-view. http://www.the-brights.net/
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