Better A Blank Sheet Or A Cage?

Ratatouille89 wrote:

Composition - Ministerial program [...]

I. Completion exams for the lower course

[...]Composition of a short piece for piano on a given theme.[...]

II. Program for the completion exams of the middle course

[...]Composition of a song without words, for piano, on a theme assigned by the Commission, to be performed within a maximum time of 12 hours.[...]

Oops... but I am sure that I wrote the romance for the IV and for the VII I did the variations (but without a doubt the alternative was the romance...). Probably the short piece for piano mentioned in the program of the IV is subject to various interpretations and also depends heavily on the theme...

Carlos, it is just as the document states. Isn't it that things were different by direction?

Gerardo wrote:

Personally speaking, a romance is 100 times better than a fugue

I quote

Clearly my studies are ongoing and are organ-based, so composition is reduced to counterpoint and the fugue (let's say a little fugue).

Therefore, I don't have the foundations to compare the two difficulties, but one thing I know for certain: writing a fugue gives me great satisfaction... I don't know if it's an experience unique to me. When I finish, I am very satisfied; this gives me the energy to overcome various difficulties.

Perhaps for the romance or other things you composers do, it is the same thing...

Organista94 wrote:

writing a fugue for me is a great satisfaction ... I don't know if it's an experience unique to me. When I finish, I am very satisfied; this gives me the energy to overcome various difficulties

... but of course a fugue is satisfying, of course. Bach and his contemporaries were not masochists, and everyone who preceded and followed them knows that well. And in all "forms," dodecaphony inherits a lot from the fugue, eh!

Oracolo wrote:

Better a blank sheet or a cage?

It has nothing to do with Romances and Fugues, anyway... I have found that lately it is impossible for me to write notes unless starting from a blank sheet. With staff paper, I am no longer able to do it! I have to draw the staves myself.

RedScharlach wrote:

It has nothing to do with Romances and Fugues, anyway... I have verified that lately it is impossible for me to write notes unless starting from a blank sheet. With staff paper, I am no longer able to do it! I have to draw the staves myself.

I understand, but I think it was obvious to everyone that the topic title was a metaphor.