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[Cato]

Excellent work on the ballet!   I wrote to Karl earlier:

First, let me praise the orchestration: I have a bias for the darker woodwinds, so I was quite happy to see the English Horn, Bass Clarinet, and the Contrabassoon being given some real work!  The music for the Oboe and English Horn in the opening (bars 15 ff.), the Contrabassoon, Bass Clarinet, and English Horn melodies at H and I are quite evocative, as are the brass chorale at bar 28 ff. and Piccolo/Timpani section!  The percussion section should also be singled out: I especially like the way that the quarter-note moto perpetuo figure is quickly hinted at in the piano and harp in J, before it takes off!

Next, the contrapuntal writing is highly intriguing: the fugato, the fanfare with the 5:4 figure, and the conclusion (which reminded me of things by Honegger and yet were different from them) are more than satisfactory!

[Karl Henning]

Thanks! That timpani part is untouched from the ancient MS., but the piccolo was a spontaneous 2017 addition.

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[Karl Henning]

So, a MIDI snapshot of one possible result:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Sf2svscwUvI

[Karl Henning]

The score:

[Karl Henning]

So, a MIDI snapshot of one possible result:

Noted, of course, that the horn glissandi here are . . . unnatural.

[Karl Henning]

EmmaLee Holmes Hicks, the violinist for whom I wrote Plotting, is a member of Verdant Vibes in Providence. They have a call for scores [....]

. . . to which I submitted ...illa existimans quia hortulanus esset...., (very nearly) what everyone was expecting, and Things Like Bliss, to no avail.

This year (that is, by 5 Aug) I shall submit the Pierrot-ensemble-plus version of Quijote, and a suitable rapid adaptation of Kurosawa's Scarecrow.

Hey, you never know.

[Cato]

Noted, of course, that the horn glissandi here are . . . unnatural.

I love unnatural horn glissandi! 

. . . to which I submitted ...illa existimans quia hortulanus esset...., (very nearly) what everyone was expecting, and Things Like Bliss, to no avail.

This year (that is, by 5 Aug) I shall submit the Pierrot-ensemble-plus version of Quijote, and a suitable rapid adaptation of Kurosawa's Scarecrow.

Hey, you never know.

We hope that they get off the drugs and realize that your works are winners!  0:)

[Karl Henning]

Well, maybe (a) Things Like Bliss just didn't grab them, (b) and ...illa existimans quia hortulanus esset.... and (very nearly) what everyone was expecting are only duos, for a program on which (c) they were looking to involve more of the band.

In which case, Quijote might be just the thing.  I'll be sure to prepare the best MIDI mix I can.

[Karl Henning]

I love unnatural horn glissandi! 

Happily, Pam reports that the horn part is straightforward!

[Karl Henning]

The string quartet adaptation of Kurosawa's Scarecrow strikes me as particularly felicitous.

[Karl Henning]

I remember now, that this call was the occasion for hoisting these MIDI demos up to YouTube (as exhibits supporting the submission of the scores) last year.

http://www.youtube.com/v/DjiHX4Xh0u0

http://www.youtube.com/v/k4VCNgu6HjY

[Karl Henning]

Thank you!

[Karl Henning]

And, thus:

http://www.youtube.com/v/UUJnUqs1FkI

[Karl Henning]

Likewise, a piece I remain somehow fiercely proud of:

http://www.youtube.com/v/EnBckGxlknc

[Karl Henning]

This year (that is, by 5 Aug) I shall submit the Pierrot-ensemble-plus version of Quijote, and a suitable rapid adaptation of Kurosawa's Scarecrow.

Hey, you never know.

Done.

[Karl Henning]

Well, at the foot of the original Sibelius score, the date 2015 illumines.  Checking my blog (!) I learn that I started in November, possibly Thanksgiving.  Possibly earlier:  the date of my downloading a P.D. PDF of the source chorale seems to be 7 Nov 2015.  No knowing, now, whether I snaffled the score, and went to work sooner rather than later.

Good progress today.  Content to inch along with it, really.

[Karl Henning]

If you want, the mp3 of this start is up on Dropbox.

[Karl Henning]

The work this morning was (most appropriately) the Mass, Op.106.  The need to get the Lux Nova Press edition of the Gloria ready for purchase and use by Triad is the driver.  My default format choice is apt to be Letter, because that is what I print on.  But we need it to fit on octavo size, and the staff size should be 6mm . . . and to fit some of the systems with brief passages for solo voice, I had reduced the staff size to 5.5mm.  The final guiding factor is, the fewer the sheets we can fit onto, the better (keeping cost of production, and cost to the customer, down).  My initial go at bringing both page and staff size into compliance succeeded only in fitting the Gloria onto six sheets (23pp. of score).

The especially good news, though, is that given these guidelines, I have puttered with the layout of all the numbers of the Mass.  Not surprisingly, the Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei all fit handsomely onto two sheets each.  The conversion of the Credo required quite a bit of management, mostly because of the variety of textures . . . like the Gloria (and I do not much see how this can be helped) it fits onto six sheets.

[kishnevi]

And, thus:

http://www.youtube.com/v/UUJnUqs1FkI

Karl, your inbox is too full to allow new messages....

I just listened to this.  I detected a good piece of music, but the MIDI husk betrays you here: I thought I was listening much of the time to a grade C horror movie soundtrack.   

[Karl Henning]

Karl, your inbox is too full to allow new messages....

It's a result of my lapsed subscription!