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Originally Posted by EldKatt
Musical knowledge doesn't have to be verbal, or theoretical.
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HANDWORK,
AND PRACTICE.
That's all you need to write like Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, whoever you want to name. Or, well, more importantly? Yourself.
(I'm agreeing with you 100%, too. I was able to write fugues and general counterpoint-style pieces without being able to name anything I was using in "scholar" terms just by diligently studying scores and copying, copying and more copying until the thing just "clicked" after so much practice. I actually failed an entry exam in counterpoint (which shocked everyone!) but that's just one of the million flaws with institutions that "teach" music. Specially music theory.
Bach picked up everything he knew just like I did (I copied his method actually, lol) Copy, copy, copy, copy. You pick up all the "rules" just by virtue of repetition and, well, developing what I call the "handwork". It's the only way to really master a particular musical idiom in my opinion.)