{"id":738,"date":"2008-02-06T16:46:37","date_gmt":"2008-02-07T00:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/06\/music-life-death\/"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:39:01","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T02:39:01","slug":"music-life-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nobleviola.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/06\/music-life-death\/","title":{"rendered":"music, life, death"},"content":{"rendered":"

A memorable post<\/a> from composer Daron Hagen<\/a> relating a composition lesson with David Diamond at Juilliard.<\/p>\n

My favorite bit:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If Life is a Melody, then Energy must be the human compulsion to organize sound into Song,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I rallied, half-serious.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And Force is the application of creative energy,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he smiled.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And composition is Birth?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I asked.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153And pulse is Gravity,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he answered. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Which makes entropy, or the lack of pulse, Death,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, taking the pencil. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Look,” he circled the head of my counter-subject, “this<\/em> is memorable, but why not just take the tail of the subject, invert it, and use that as the head of the counter-subject?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Chop, I thought: the snake devouring its tail. Chop. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In my beginning is my end. Eliot,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I risked.<\/p>\n

He chuckled. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Right. The Ouroborus. My end is my beginning. Mary, Queen of the Scots. Earlier. Better,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he replied with finality as through the door the three light knocks of his next student indicated that my lesson was nearly up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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