- Music is written for the audience, not for critics, theoreticians, or musicologists.
- Ardent Formulism offers the audience novelty over a framework of familiarity. It can be summed up with the following impertinent phrase: Originality has been done to death. It’s time for something new!
- Ardent Formulism is the deliberate, even insolent, application of formulaic patterns to new music. It is a meta-genre; a commentary on whatever genre the composer chooses, rather than a genre in itself.
- Music composed on the principle of Ardent Formulism can run the gamut from a straight pastiche, with a few non-conventional patterns, to a re-imagining of a familiar genre.
- Music composed on the principle of Ardent Formulism must be technically spot-on. It must be slick. Anything less will make it sound like a pale imitation of a dead genre.
- Music composed on the principle of Ardent Formulism is often playful and light-hearted in nature, in the tradition of literary pastiche. However, it can carry greater weight if the composer employs the proper subtlety.
- Writing music shouldn’t be a chore. Have fun!
October 20, 2010
The Ardent Formulism Manifesto
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