{"id":336,"date":"2007-08-08T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2020-08-16T16:05:09","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T00:05:09","slug":"amusing-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/08\/amusing-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Amused"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So this evening we&#8217;re going to write a Fugue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>What?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mapped it out in the structure of this mega-opus. Right here, see? &#8220;Part 4: Interrupt and Fugue&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Do you really think this composition needs a fugue?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure. Every mega-opus has a fugue in it. It&#8217;s &#8220;cool&#8221; and it&#8217;s how people know that you&#8217;re, you know, a serious composer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8230;You do know what a fugue is, don&#8217;t you?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure! It&#8217;s a fiddly bit with multiple voices that come in one by one, playing with counterpoint and harmony until everything explodes together in a joyous cascade of notes. Sometimes more than once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8230;um, OK. You really think you can write one?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Come on, how hard can it be? We already have a bunch of themes to work with. And, of course, I&#8217;ll have your help too, naturally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hello? Muse? Are you still there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;Darn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this evening we&#8217;re going to write a Fugue. What? I mapped it out in the structure of this mega-opus. Right here, see? &#8220;Part 4: Interrupt and Fugue&#8221;. Do you really think this composition needs a fugue? Sure. Every mega-opus has a fugue in it. It&#8217;s &#8220;cool&#8221; and it&#8217;s how people know that you&#8217;re, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}