The Northern idea of form is more of a process. The various units of the form overlap. You can't tell where some things stop and new things start. This is typical of Sibelius.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.
We are deeply conscious of the fact that our north and west must be developed.
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form.
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North similar to a Southerner. They're two different worlds.
At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.