Let’s take for example the nocturnes of Chopin.
My preferred one is nocturne n. 20
He certainly didn’t have studio machine to record their sound AFAIK
How then did he memorize and write down everything to remember later?
Did he start playing the piano, write down the notes, continue playing or did he memorize the whole song by heart without any writing process?
Sorry 4 my bad English btw. Not a English native speaker.
EDIT : thanks everyone for the explanation.
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Some composers had the ability to “play” one or more parts in their head as they mentally composed and then they’d write that down. But generally, a motif or melody is composed and then accompaniment is written to support that.
accompaniment that an orchestra would normally play. While Chopin was composing the right-hand melody, he was likely thinking about and playing with different options for the left hand.
There are also general rules of classical music that would help a composer remember what they wrote and where they need to go. Phrasing and chord structures were somewhat rigid, even in to the Romantic Period of which Chopin were a part of.
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