Q: how do you think of a musical theme? i'm having a block trying to find a theme for a fugue and am interested in how you go about making those first few notes
A: i've never written a fugue, but if i recall that means a totally instrumental piece, which makes me think of a hint i could give you: try to think about some words, or real-world situations and scenarios. music is like water. while scientists agree that the water itself can not be 'wet', it is what makes other things wet. so in a sense it's sometimes almost as if the other things make the water wet, because the wetness tends to occur very readily once you introduce non-water items into the picture