{"id":12367,"date":"2008-12-14T08:30:22","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T08:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/dearn.html"},"modified":"2008-12-14T08:30:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T08:30:22","slug":"dearn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/12\/14\/dearn.html","title":{"rendered":"Dearn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">Lonely; solitary; melancholy.                <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It might surprise some people to learn that I listen to other music while composing music. Similarly, I sometimes keep music playing in the background while I practice and learn music by other composers. <\/p>\n<p>This is not a strict routine. As often as not I will surround myself in silence as I pursue these solitary pursuits. <\/p>\n<p>It should go without saying that practicing music written by others can be a tedious endeavor. The mechanics of devising a strategy to deal with technical challenges and compositional vagaries are largely unconscious. One might go insane while attempting to fully contemplate the muscle maneuvers and choreography of playing even a simple piano piece. Conversely I find that I, having played piano since childhood, sometimes feel I am looking a mental abyss &#8212; a subconscious hive &#8212; when I watch a pianist&#8217;s hands unravel a complex piece of music. <\/p>\n<p>There is that darkness about music, a solitude. Where, really, do the skills and energy come from? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lonely; solitary; melancholy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/saumAn-dearn","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}