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I agree. Knocking out a mass a week at least ups your production and keeps your creativity in good form. Another case that I marvel at is Carl Stalling. Duri
by dbcurtis 8y ago
I agree. Knocking out a mass a week at least ups your production and keeps your creativity in good form.
Another case that I marvel at is Carl Stalling. During the heyday of the Warner cartoon unit he did most of the scores. Yes, yes, not the same as Bach -- Stalling cribbed a lot of well-know music and had access to the Warner music catalog. But the production rate! Imagine: The Warner cartoon studio had 4 units. Each unit did one feature per month, so that they could deliver one new animated short feature every week. Show up Monday with blank paper. Record with the orchestra at a Warner sound stage on Friday. Repeat every week. Wow.
- pseudolus 8y agoIn a similar vein writers such as Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Dumas were heavily serialized and required to produce content at a rate that few of our contemporary writers could match [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_(literature)
- madhadron 8y agoBach also cribbed a lot of well known work. The four harpsichord concerto is almost a transcription of a Vivaldi four violin concerto. The man had music to produce, and he borrowed from everywhere. We just don't remember it because in most cases he was such an amazing technician that it eclipsed the original.