Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts

About Uses of Music in Uttermost Parts

by Ursula K. Le Guin

In the summer of 1985 my friend Elinor Armer and I were sitting around on ancient iron chaise-longues in the Napa Valley discussing how a composer and a writer might collaborate from scratch. It’s usually a sequence: first the writer writes the words, then the composer sets them to music. We wanted to see if we could collaborate simultaneously — at least work out the “idea” together at the same time — And, rather than setting the words...