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Many musicians consider themselves 'composers' because they know harmony. Harmony is 'composition for dummies'. To compose real stuff you have to study counterp
by emersonrsantos 13y ago
Many musicians consider themselves 'composers' because they know harmony. Harmony is 'composition for dummies'. To compose real stuff you have to study counterpoint for lifetime.
And there are even worse algorithmic composing systems like Lyle Murphy's Equal Interval System, Schillinger, etc... I love algorithms but that's not art.
- JonnieCache 13y agoOf course. It's just a fun way of generating raw material and ideas, not for creating finished pieces.
- mtinkerhess 13y agoDepends what you mean by "real stuff" I guess. You could just as easily argue that musicians consider themselves composers because they read Fux. Counterpoint is important for certain styles of composition and irrelevant for others. At its most basic, composition is the creation of a musical score. What form the score takes, what genre the piece is in, the method of composition, the evaluation of the resulting work, are all flexible depending on the style of music and the quirks of the particular composer and audience. Whether something qualifies as "art" is almost entirely subjective -- if it speaks to an audience (including the composer!) it's worth something.