source file: m1379.txt
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 06:19:05 -0700 (PDT)

Subject: Re: TUNING digest 1377

From: Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>

> Composing begins with form.

Not that it's relevant to this forum, but this
has never been the case for me.  In my case,
it starts with an itch that gets magnified
by some curious sound.  I've never known
a composer who started from a form, though
this may be standard procedure outside Lotus-Land.