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Thursday, 8 April 2004
Surprising myself ::
Last week I was determined to compose and spent some hours casting about for new ideas. I recorded some improvisations, and maybe they’ll grab me later, but they didn’t grab me immediately. ...
Art before commerce ::
I bought myself Fux’s The Study of Counterpoint for my birthday and read the first chapter the other night. In the first dialogue between the master and the would-be student of composition, the master agrees to accept the student only after the student says he does not wish to learn composition based on “the hope of future riches and possessions.” ...