On 31 Dec 2004 at 12:19, John Howell wrote: > That is exactly what JW can do, and he does it well. No, he's no > Robert Schumann, who didn't need to study counterpoint or > orchestration because he was so "inspired."
Er, Schumann studied counterpoint at length, by engaging the works of JS Bach in some depth and over a number of years. And in terms of orchestration, while he made a few elementary mistakes that anyone with an orchestration teacher would have been trained *not* to make, he certainly knew what he was doing. A self-taught genius is often more successful than a rigorously trained mediocrity. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
