On my way.

Oh good. This is going to go all evening. A mental sigh, but not an unhappy one.

What exactly is a composition talk?

Music theory, you know. Is that not popular in Asgard? The way different sounds and instruments and themes and chords work together, how to tweak a key for mood or vividness or memorability...

It's never been my subject, but people do study music like that.

Music is considered the highest art and most valuable skill here. Being talented at it is everything. It's how we tell all our stories and celebrate all our joys.

I did notice it featured heavily. Do you have written music, or would that be a new idea too?

How would you write music?

Like, I said, not my subject, but when Asgardians do it, it looks approximately like - And she sends a picture of sheet music, notes and lyrics, mentally annotated.

Huh. I'm surprised that that could capture everything.

Not everything, to capture everything you need a sound recording and those are unpopular on Asgard because they can't be made to seem low-tech, but it'll do notes and rhythm and tempo and dynamics with other marks here and there about what else should be kept in mind while performing it.

Huh. Maybe I'll bring up the idea.

And then you could trade songs with other people, if they learned to do it too.

Or we could just sing the songs for them.

I imagine that takes a while, to go through a large repertoire well enough that the songs get learned, but I suppose that's not such a deterrent for Quendi...

Lots of our musicians can perform a song on hearing it once.

That's impressive.

It's the way all history and most news is communicated. It's important.

I hope the musicians aren't upset if writing catches on.

I suspect that sound will always bring more joy to our hearts than writing.

It's definitely an enduringly popular medium for joy. Less so news and history.

Then I suspect they'll live.

I'd hope so. I wasn't imagining the disappointment would be fatal. Gardens? Gardens. Food.

I should probably concentrate. Have a nice dinner!