While Composing, does this ever happen to you ?

[m1469]

I can't keep myself from starting this topic because I am so excited that I am trembling inside. 

While you are composing, do you ever have this strange feeling that whatever particular piece you are composing, you have heard before ?  And you wonder if you are just re-composing something that somebody else already did ?

Well, I am composing something right now that gives me that very feeling.  But, I don't think it is anybody else's.  It happens to be a composition that is very meaningful to me.  I just wonder if it is something that I have had in me for a really long time (and therefore feels and seems familiar), and now it is just finally coming out ?  It almost seems like it is from another lifetime.  heh.  Maybe kinda wierd... but does anybody else experience this ?


m1469 


ps-  I occasionally also experience something like this with other people's pieces as I am learning them ... but anyway, not quite like this.

[ted]

Yes, that happens reasonably frequently during improvisation. I have always assumed it is a musical version of deja vu.

[dinosaurtales]

Great topic!  I am taking music theory, which involves ocassionaly composition projects - mostly simple, but I have a tough time with them!  By the time I put something together, work it all out, practice it so I can play it, do the analysis, etc, I have heard it so many times that I am sure it's been done before!  It's an awful feeling, especially just before playing it and turning it in!

I am lousy at thinking of melodies, but I am good at inventing rhythmic themes, and complementary lines, which saves me!  If you have any tips on how to think of nice melodies, I'd sure like to know!

As much trouble as I have with it, it's a bunch of fun to build a little piece! (mine are all dinky)