In writing words or music, they often alternate: sometimes the words come first, sometimes the tune. I usually write to existing words, so I have to stick to their meaning.
Have you ever translated words? Phew. That's probably the most difficult of all composing tasks. I didn't intend to be historically correct. Simply: for me the meaning of the words is very important. :-) Paul Delcour Doug Auwarter wrote: >on 6/5/02 3:25 PM, Paul Delcour at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >>you are forgetting that all >>composers started with the lyrics, were inspired by them and set their >>music according to the meaning of the words. >> >> > >What??!! >This just is not the case. Perhaps you're speaking from a "classical" >perspective, where a composer has a libretto from which to compose an opera. >But among the better popular music composers, there is no strict regimen. >Jobim's "Retrato em Branco e Preto" was the wordless "Zingaro" before Chico >Buarque wrote the words. Many composers use a "scratch" lyric to compose a >song until they can finalize a finished lyric. "Yesterday" was called >"Scrambled Eggs" in just this manner. >Doug > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
