Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Rise and Fall

Common to narratives great and small, literary and musical, are the arrangements with their beginnings, developmental processes, and conclusions.


Yet life goes on, as do the sounds of life, outside such limits-- ungovernable, surprising, cyclical, dynamic, subtle, and strange, all moving in constantly shifting atmospheres.

This is something different than music, and to give it expression the composer must reflect the musical, the formless, and the sensual.