{"id":4757,"date":"2016-04-19T05:24:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emotemuse.com\/g\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2016-04-19T05:24:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T19:24:36","slug":"start-with-one-note","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=4757","title":{"rendered":"Start with one note"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ravel in conversation with Mme Andr\u00e9 Bloch:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t have ideas.\u00a0 To begin with, nothing forces itself on me.&#8221;<br \/>\n &#8220;But if there&#8217;s no beginning, how do you follow it up? What do you write down first of all?&#8221;<br \/>\n &#8220;A note at random, then a second one and, sometimes, a third.\u00a0 I then see what results.\u00a0 I get by contrasting, combining and separating them.\u00a0 From these various experiments there are always conclusions to be drawn; I explore the contents and developments of these.\u00a0 These half-formed ideas are built up automatically; I then range and order them like a mason building a wall.\u00a0 As you see, there&#8217;s nothing mysterious or secret in all this.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>Edward Maurat, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Souvenirs muscaux et litt\u00e9raires <\/span>(Saint-Etienne, 1977), p. 128.\u00a0 Cited in:\u00a0 Nichols, Roger (1987) <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ravel Remembered<\/span>.\u00a0 London: Faber &amp; Faber., p. 61.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravel in conversation with Mme Andr\u00e9 Bloch: &#8220;I don&#8217;t have ideas.\u00a0 To begin with, nothing forces itself on me.&#8221; &#8220;But if there&#8217;s no beginning, how do you follow it up? What do you write down first of all?&#8221; &#8220;A note at random, then a second one and, sometimes, a third.\u00a0 I then see what results.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[776,586],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-creative-process","tag-creative-process","tag-ravel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4758,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/4758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}