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It’s obvious that the real order
and meaning
of music is the one the listener hears with his ears. Whatever occult
mathematical orders may exist on paper are not necessarily relevant to
this in the least. Now it’s true that in writing my own works I sometimes
try quasi-“geometric” things in order to cut myself off from
habitual ways
of thinking about particular technical problems and to place myself in
so to speak, new terrain, which forces me to look around and find new kinds
of ideas and solutions I might not have thought of otherwise. Nonetheless,
if what I come up with by these methods is unsatisfactory from the point
of view of what I think is interesting to hear, I throw it out without
a second thought.
Elliott Carter
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