So I just had an unpleasant experience with a piece I was working on. I have been writing a piece for a woodwind quartet (I do classical as well as electronic) and was playing through the bassoon part (on an actual bassoon,) when someone listening walked up and said,
“Isn’t that a Debussy piece?”
I was naturally surprised; I’d thought it was an original idea. I played it for them again, and it turns out it was almost exactly the same as au Clair de la Lune, by Debussy. It turns out my idea was actually a memory of a piece I’d heard a long time ago. What I’d thought was an original work on my part, is really just an arrangement for woodwind quartet, or at best a variation (basically the classical version of a remix). I guess I’ll go back to Electronic music, after that bit of disappointment.