Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[Luke]

Fixed, far too easily, as was the one I just spotted in number 2. But, you know what, it does sound better, that fleeting moment, now. One derides such rules at one's peril (actually, I don't deride it, it seems very sensible to me!)

[Luke]

Whilst I was upstairs for a while earlier my little girl Mila (9) sat at the dining table and wrote this little masterpiece. (I put it into Sibelius for her, though). Nice to see that at least one Ottevanger can write pleasant music... I pointed out a couple of notational errors to her - the notes made complete sense, but there were two empty bars which only had two beats of rest each. Apparently the little dyads on the last line are meant to be there, played by an instrument or something. Anyway, she took on board my advice very happily and made sure we changed the score straight away, changing those two bars of two beat rests to one of four. And tomorrow we need to have serious words about textual accentuation           But if she keeps on listening willingly and wanting to get things right like this, she'll be getting all these basics right in no time....


     

[Scarpia]

Whilst I was upstairs for a while earlier my little girl Mila (9) sat at the dining table and wrote this little masterpiece. (I put it into Sibelius for her, though). Nice to see that at least one Ottevanger can write pleasant music... I pointed out a couple of notational errors to her - the notes made complete sense, but there were two empty bars which only had two beats of rest each. Apparently the little dyads on the last line are meant to be there, played by an instrument or something. Anyway, she took on board my advice very happily and made sure we changed the score straight away, changing those two bars of two beat rests to one of four. And tomorrow we need to have serious words about textual accentuation           But if she keeps on listening willingly and wanting to get things right like this, she'll be getting all these basics right in no time....


     

Well, it is nice as far as it goes, but I am accustomed to Saul masterpieces.  The first phrase is rather awkward due to the clumsy notation, it is more intuitive as c## f-flat f a-flat-flat.  And how can seriously I take a piece with no 64th notes arpeggios, preferably on tenor tuba in dramatic high tessitura? 

[Joe_Campbell]

Plus, this piece clearly is written in 7/16.

[greg]

Mila is a cool name. I should post some of my little brother's works he threw together messing around on Guitar Pro. That stuff is quite a bit more demented! 

[karlhenning]

Whilst I was upstairs for a while earlier my little girl Mila (9) sat at the dining table and wrote this little masterpiece. (I put it into Sibelius for her, though). Nice to see that at least one Ottevanger can write pleasant music... I pointed out a couple of notational errors to her - the notes made complete sense, but there were two empty bars which only had two beats of rest each. Apparently the little dyads on the last line are meant to be there, played by an instrument or something. Anyway, she took on board my advice very happily and made sure we changed the score straight away, changing those two bars of two beat rests to one of four. And tomorrow we need to have serious words about textual accentuation           But if she keeps on listening willingly and wanting to get things right like this, she'll be getting all these basics right in no time....


     

Great fun!  Brava, Mila!

[Saul]

Whilst I was upstairs for a while earlier my little girl Mila (9) sat at the dining table and wrote this little masterpiece. (I put it into Sibelius for her, though). Nice to see that at least one Ottevanger can write pleasant music... I pointed out a couple of notational errors to her - the notes made complete sense, but there were two empty bars which only had two beats of rest each. Apparently the little dyads on the last line are meant to be there, played by an instrument or something. Anyway, she took on board my advice very happily and made sure we changed the score straight away, changing those two bars of two beat rests to one of four. And tomorrow we need to have serious words about textual accentuation           But if she keeps on listening willingly and wanting to get things right like this, she'll be getting all these basics right in no time....


     

It took me a while to get all the fingering rite, but now I have mastered this most challenging piano piece.
Very cool.

[Joe_Campbell]

Look who's moping around your outpost, Luke!

[Guido]

Love it! And all modal like her father!

[Luke]

Yeah, I'm modal, but she's supermodal...

[Guido]

I assume the words are by her too - they're so good!

[Luke]

She follows TS Eliot's advice to Tippett to write his own libretti, yes.

We talked through a few things about accentuation today, and we penned a couple of lines of a piece about flying through the sky and getting fluffy clouds stuck in your hair or something as an exercise in fitting verbal stress to the music. Progress is being made.   

Which is as well, because her dad hasn't written a note since finishing that flute sonata thinga few days back. And he's starting to feel twitchy...

[karlhenning]

Now is the very twitching time . . . .

[Luke]

Not one of the pieces I have 'on the go' (because they seem to be a bit stalled), but I have just spent a happy hour or so feeling my way into a new piece, an orchestral one, just on the whim of the moment. No idea where it will go, why it will go there or how it will get there. If it even does! Might be yet another non-starter. Only a couple of pages written out, and really only these so that I have something semi-polished from which to grab material and make it run. We'll see..

[Cato]

Yeah, I'm modal, but she's supermodal...

Supermodals are big in the fashion world, so maybe she will become rich and famous for wearing clothes and looking slightly annoyed and vacant!   

But if you are lucky, that will not be her choice!   0:)

She shows talent, and it is nice to see that she has the desire to develop it!

I have not yet heard from the local music professors about your music: the summer is not the best time, of course, but I will push them again.

[karlhenning]

She follows TS Eliot's advice to Tippett to write his own libretti, yes.

Gosh, did TS Eliot really open that can of worms? ; )

There's a lovely little letter that Groucho Marx wrote to TS Eliot . . . have you read it, Luke? (I mean, it's been published and all — I know better than to accuse you of reading other people's mail . . . .)

[Luke]

Gosh, did TS Eliot really open that can of worms? ; )

Watch it, Henning, I'll have no slurs cast upon Tippett on this thread, thank you ;-) Not even the much-maligned libretti: they do the job they are meant to do, they make for fine singing, and I can't imagine how they could be changed for the better, even if they are sometimes rather squirm-inducing!

There's a lovely little letter that Groucho Marx wrote to TS Eliot . . . have you read it, Luke? (I mean, it's been published and all — I know better than to accuse you of reading other people's mail . . . .)

No, never read it...

[Luke]

Supermodals are big in the fashion world, so maybe she will become rich and famous for wearing clothes and looking slightly annoyed and vacant!   

Fantastic! She does all that already!! Bring on the big bucks....

I have not yet heard from the local music professors about your music: the summer is not the best time, of course, but I will push them again.

Thank you - I appreciate it very much, and am curious to hear their response! It's really flattering that you thought enough of the pieces to put them in these fellas' direction - thank you 

[karlhenning]

Watch it, Henning, I'll have no slurs cast upon Tippett on this thread, thank you ;-)

Well, it's only the libretti and their tendency to squirm-induction that I should strew the occasional slur at.  Sometime this year I must seek out King Priam.

[Scarpia]

Yeah, I'm modal, but she's supermodal...

Hm, I typed "Mila" and "supermodal" into google, but it told me that what I meant was "Milla" and "Supermodel."  Is this her?