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Re: The composers view

'The Composers view' attracted my interest.  In an earlier list there was
some discussion re: composers and instrumentation issues around 'creative
restriction'.  I would be interested in hearing a bit more around re: the
comment

"So what I am really saying is that the composers ideas when he is writing
for
band must be modified to the type and numbers of instruments in the band set
up.
This sometimes leads to muddy harmonies or bored players but that's the way
it
is."

I would think that in composition being a creative form that when setting
out to compose for brass band that the 'modifying .the composers ideas' is
really saying the band instrumentation somehow causes a less than perfect
composition.  Given composition is a creative art, I would have thought it
would only be the boundries of the composers creativity that limits - not
the instrumentation.  Per a previous email I had posted to the list - their
are only a limited number of notes in the scale and chord structures,
however we seem to have been able to perform wonders with the combination of
chord and moving melody over time.  I don't think we've exhausted the
creative output of our composers to write for the idiom - perhaps we  should
push them harder to break the boundries of chord structure and melody
creation within the 'constraints'.

Robin McCubbin
Weston Silver Band
Canada




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