Quote:
Originally Posted by Christopher Dunn-Rankin
"I do not believe that I can call back composers from the present insanity of their work." ~J.J. Fux, from his Author's Forward to Gradus ad Parnassum.
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Ignoring the problem of "insanity" in music, since the word choice lends itself to Fux being against the onset of Classicalism...
I feel he makes an interesting, if obvious, point that you can't close an intellectual door once its been opened. Which always makes me curious about stylistic composers...
and i always hated freewriting.