The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #19861   Message #204603
Posted By: katlaughing
31-Mar-00 - 12:40 PM
Thread Name: Thought for the Day - Mar 31
Subject: RE: Thought for the Day - Mar 31
When my brother would go into schools to teach about music, the kids loved it when he would tell them to give him a telephone number and he would show them how to turn it into a full blown musical composition, tonal, with orchestration.

In his First Symphony, he introduces all seven themse in the first few measures in an amazing, very mathematical weaving, with melodies turned upside down, backwards, forwards, etc.

He never did that well beyond basic math, but all of his music has a mathematical precision to it which demands the performer pay close attantion, much as Mozart's does.