Will there ever be the day that...

[Spatula]

Will there ever be the day that almost all basic usage of intervals and rhythms will be used up and composed that when you compose a piece, coincidentaly that same interval and rhythm has already been used by another composer?

I know I mentioned this before but not much response was given.

It kinda freaks me out because I've got a pretty cool theme but I hope no one else has dreamt it up and then copyrighted it before I did.


And don't you find that some of the simplest melodies you wonder why you didn't come up with first?  Like take the Grieg Concerto for example...such a simple melody in the minor key...yet maybe it looks like one person put it down on paper and copyrighted it before...say Schubert came up with it. 

[DarkWind]

It's impossible, as you can arrange as many notes as you want at a time, and the number of notes you can use is ever changing. It can be a 4 note theme, it can be a 128492450480 note theme. The chance of making a theme exactly as long with the exact durations and the like are basically impossible. Although, it's interesting how some themes are so simple yet so effective.

[mosis]

If you have an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of pens and an infinite number of manuscript paper, could they compose everything that has and will be composed?

[Spatula]

Maybe one monkey might have the brains of Beethoven...

We'll call him Monkeethoven ...

[jlh]

But there are examples of the same theme being used by different composers... take Haydn and Mozart for example.  There are a few themes in some of their works that are identical to one another.  It's as if they sat down to lunch one day and said, "ok, here's a theme, let's see who can come up with the best composition using this one."

They are also both known for reusing and transposing their own movements for different sonatas.

[Ludwig Van Rachabji]

It's impossible, as you can arrange as many notes as you want at a time, and the number of notes you can use is ever changing. It can be a 4 note theme, it can be a 128492450480 note theme. The chance of making a theme exactly as long with the exact durations and the like are basically impossible. Although, it's interesting how some themes are so simple yet so effective.

Darkwind is correct.