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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Creating music is not such as a “magical” process where you invent 30 minutes in a stroke of genius and then you need to write it down. Music had nad has structures, if you think in a band today that make a song, they only make 2-3 things: verse, chorus and bridges. A 5 minute song is composed of 2-3 verses and 2-3x chorus, meaning that they only “compose” like 1 minute of music and then repeat. Similarly, something like a symphony (5th of Beethoven, for example), have similar structures that were often used in their time. That’s why in the 5th you hear the typical Pa-pa-pa-paaaaaa at the beginning, and then you hear it again like 5 minutes but not with the same notes and not *exactly* like the beginning after that an then again almost to the end almost *exactly* like at the beginning. Writing music is an intellectual process, where you start to play with melodies, harmony, Instrumentation and etc, so, it’s not like you “memorize” 10 minutes, because writing simply don’t work like that
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