MUSIC 1+1=Sublimity: Explanations are like the back side of a tapestry*

Composers and songwriters are generally quite uninteresting when they talk about their own work. This should not be considered surprising.



The mental processes in writing music are a mix of mathematics and intuition: the mathematics of harmony and voice leading, and the intuition that some things sound more musical than other things – and exactly why that is so will remain subliminal.
There are snippets of insight from the great composers. Mozart, for example, r…

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