Quotes about Composition

One way God establishes beauty is by putting things that are different next to each other.

its legs were iron, and its feet were part iron and part clay.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

And he joined five of the curtains together, and the other five he joined as well.

It is only to admit that what we have cannot be explained as an early (second-millennium-BC) document written essentially by one person (Moses). Rather, the Pentateuch has a diverse compositional history spanning many centuries and was brought to completion after the return from exile.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.

Seek Players Who Will Make the Best Team Rather Than the Best Players.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

RULE 3. SET FORTH THE MAJOR PARTS OF THE BOOK, AND SHOW HOW THESE ARE ORGANIZED INTO A WHOLE, BY BEING ORDERED TO ONE ANOTHER AND TO THE UNITY OF THE WHOLE.

All historians agree that the gospels were written down and circulated during the first generation after the events, while the eyewitnesses were still alive. In order for the gospels to be legendary at their core, more generations would be needed between the events they record and the date of their composition.

The father's touching the son is an everlasting blessing; the son resting against his father's breast is an eternal peace. Christian Tümpel writes: "The moment of receiving and forgiving in the stillness of its composition lasts without end. The movement of the father and the son speaks of something that passes not, but lasts forever.

Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.