I found this whilst browsing through a book (a big hard backed thing with loads of sheets of paper with print on all stuck together to make a volume) and wanted to share them somewhere

Joseph Joubert "Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes"

and a counterpoint from Ludwig Von Beethoven

"I would rather write 10,000 notes than one letter of the alphabet"

Tara

"Joseph Joubert "Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes"
Surely the other way round?

And as for Beethoven, I'm glad he decided to become a composer rather than a novelist.

Schoenberg? My roommate at college was a music major...I can't take that 12-tone stuff. Headache!! Headache!!

Z

Zoe,
I too have been subjected to atonal "music".
My reaction was to hold my head and run away screaming!

I believe it was the late Alan Coren who said that he hoped that atonal music was called that because someone would one day have to atone for it.

Hugs,

Judith

Cristine Shye, one day last week.

Self analysis, is followed by a brief moment of eureka then eternal confusion.

I thought that was very profound.

You'd think it should be the other way round, but I believe that's the way he wrote it.
However, you don't have to be Arnold Schoenberg to know that western music has twelve notes!
xx