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karlhenning

I'll accept the short end of that range. That is, if I haven't finished it in three years (by the end of 2012, say) I'll officially consider the project jettisoned.


karlhenning

As to this (thanks, Luke & Guido!) . . .

It'll be Saturday before I have time to work in the Sibelius environment again, to incorporate that improvement in the score.  By which time, there will also be more MS. to be folded into the Sibelius score.

Maybe I'll throw it all out later;  but I'm having fun with it now!


Cato

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 23, 2009, 10:25:19 AM
To build a sort-of-chorale.

But where are the quarter-tones?  8)

Having perused what I could of the sketch here at school, I was reminded of a type of "double-minor" effect a la quarter-tones by the 8-tone scale sketched in the middle on B and containing F minor: using parallel fifths in the bass  :o   you can create a kind of quarter-tonal "double-minor" effect, e.g. Eb-Bb  to Ab-Eb droning in the bass with trills on B/C  or C/D or Db/D or a melodic figure of some sort using C and F.

I know: write yer own work!   0:)
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karlhenning


Cato

Quote from: k a rl h e nn i ng on October 23, 2009, 11:14:43 AM
Hah!  :)

Well, if not quarter tones, then I hope you use some quarter notes!   8)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

greg

Karl doesn't write quarter notes- he only writes hundred dollar notes.  ;)

karlhenning

Quote from: Cato on October 23, 2009, 03:08:44 PM
Well, if not quarter tones, then I hope you use some quarter notes!   8)

There's one right there in the banner of the blog  8)

Of course, that is an old MS., though  $:)

I'm sure I notated a quarter-note today . . . .

karlhenning

Pleased with the progress, though it does seem slow (piece not quite at the two-minute mark).

I need to clean up some of the spacing -- again, since I was at p. 15 when I realized that, yes, I should set up separate staves for all the woodwinds at need, and so that created staves back where I had already tidied up the format (Luke and Guido must know this drill already).

The question now, see, is:  don't I want separate staves for all the horns and trumpets, too?  (I have a couple of passages like that in White Nights, e.g.)  Suppose I should do that now, and then go back and tidy the layout of pp. 2-14.

Does make the as-yet-unwritten pages impossibly crowded, since some few of the staves will necessarily be unwanted on every page.

karlhenning

That octave jump in sixteenth-notes in the bassoons in m. 17 (which was a whimsical modification) may well be impossible.

greg

Without permission, eh?
You got Wuorinen's cell phone number? Give him a call and ask!  :D

That's a pretty complex-looking score you got there... i'll be looking forward to hearing it.  :)

karlhenning

He's gotta be busy on his opry . . . .

Cato

Quote from: Cato on October 23, 2009, 11:00:45 AM
But where are the quarter-tones8)


Of course, Karl would like the work to be performed with an audience that stays in the concert hall!   8)
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

MN Dave

I'm listening to atonal squonking.  ;D

karlhenning

Quote from: MN Dave on October 25, 2009, 04:28:23 PM
I'm listening to atonal squonking.  ;D

Nice break from Chopin (whose music I love, too, of course) . . . .

MN Dave

Unfortunately, I was interrupted.  :-\

karlhenning

Quote from: Greg on October 24, 2009, 06:21:27 PM
That's a pretty complex-looking score you got there...

I'm trying to keep 'er clear, actually . . . .

karlhenning

Quote from: MN Dave on October 26, 2009, 05:48:42 AM
Unfortunately, I was interrupted.  :-\

Well, and I do hope your own work goes well, mon ami!

MN Dave

Thanks.

There will be further listening to Henning this evening!