{"id":6595,"date":"2021-10-24T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6595"},"modified":"2021-10-24T11:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T00:38:55","slug":"obedience-and-liberty-in-creativity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=6595","title":{"rendered":"Obedience and liberty in creativity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A great work, I believe, is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.  Such a work satisfied the mind, together with that curious thing which is artistic emotion.  Stravinsky said, &#8220;If I were permitted everything, I would be lost in the abyss of liberty.&#8221;  On the one hand he knew the limits, on the other he ceaselessly extended them.<br><br>If we look at the history of human production we note that there is a kind of tacit and profound accord between what has been achieved and what has been transcended.  Take a work of the importance of Bach&#8217;s <em>Well-Tempered Clavier<\/em>; the obedience is such that when Bach makes a decision, it always corresponds to a rule, to a convention that can be explained in clear terms.  Thus he begins by obeying.  But within that obedience, he is absolutely free.  He doesn&#8217;t submit to obedience, he chooses it.  <\/p><cite><em>Mademoiselle: <\/em>Conversations with Nadia Boulanger, ed. by Bruno Monsaingeon, trans. by Robyn Marsack. Cited in: O. Strunk, <em>Source Readings in Music History: The Twentieth Century, <\/em>New York, W. W. Norton &amp; Company, 1998, p.218.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Nadia Boulanger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A great work, I believe, is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty. Such a work satisfied the mind, together with that curious thing which is artistic emotion. Stravinsky said, &#8220;If I were permitted everything, I would be lost in the abyss of liberty.&#8221; On the one hand he knew the limits, on [&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":[578,1283],"class_list":["post-6595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-creative-process","tag-bach","tag-nadia-boulanger"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595","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=6595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6595\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}