Frank Corcoran

I do, actually. Daily. Train the music-thinking cerebral centre. Early morning is best, I write a fugue or a Bach chorale prelude , normally 3 voices , on any one heroic day four. The element of time is very important – complete within an hour . The clock increases pressure – corrections and stylistic details or commas much later ; the main focus is on form and train and shove those motives or tones around quickly in the musical argument so as to have got some kind of a musical composition ( – Gawd help the style ) at the end of the hour. Muscle training. Tonal tone. Keep it up as Autumn cools into September with its wasps and Keats and great sun-sets and the feeling that that was that , our summer heat. Musical jerks, the horizontal and the vertical.
Of course these Humble Hamburg Musings blog on this very same principle; “spontaneous”
writing, quick-we-have-not-a-second thinking. In words now. Same training….