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- From: stefan@sinus.stgt.sub.org (Stefan Bechtold)
- Subject: Re: academia, power, priveledge...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225344.569@sinus.stgt.sub.org>
- Organization: Sinus Stuttgart, Germany
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- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 22:53:44 GMT
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- fields@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Matthew Fields) writes:
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- >Two comments here. First, I believe strongly that composition CAN be
- >taught, but the cultural category of "greatness" can't be taught. If
- >there were nothing that could be taught about composition then it
- ^^^^^^^
-
- I don't think that composition can be taught, but *something* about
- composition can be taught.
-
- >would be kind of funny to have this newsgroup, unless every posting
- >announced composers' contests. Composition can be taught because so
- >many nifty ideas have already been worked out by composers of the
- >past, and so many of these ideas are fluid enough to be adaptable to
-
- But is that all ? You learn, e.g., how to write a Bach-style fugue
- and then you can composer and are a composer ?
-
- >individual types of expression. Raw creativity is very tricky to
- >elicit, although sometimes you encounter a student who is fairly
- >bristling with creativity but just lacks the confidence or nerve to
- >try it out, and instead keeps trying to stick to straight-arrow
- >rule-based systems or whatever---and in that case a teacher CAN
- >encourage the student to take advantage of their innate creativity,
- >which still doesn't say that creativity can be taught. Compositional
- Yes.
- >craft and technique can be taught. The situation is similar in
-
- Yes, composition technique can be taught, but not composition !
- If you have learned only the techniques you are not a composer
- (similar in other arts, as you said).
-
-
- Stefan
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