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[Cato]

Hey, it took me a second, but I twig this. Grooveriffic!

It had at high points nonuple counterpoint, hence the 9 harpsichords. 3 bass clarinets, 3 English horns, 3 alto flutes, 3 bass flutes, 3 bassoons, and 3 krummhorns.   

Nine scenes as well: the score is long gone.   0:)

Just in case:



"Krumm" in German means "bent."

[Karl Henning]

Sounds like a n^o 9 dream!

[Karl Henning]

Some work done to-day on the fifth of the clarinet duos:

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[Karl Henning]

I forget what duration I was contemplating for this one . . . but then, I don't think I committed myself to any particular duration, so let's just see where she wants to go, eh?  There is an idea I have had in the back of my musical mind for this one, oh, for months . . . but this opening is something different. But related.  I can 'get to' my original idea, and make it into the jitterbug my mother always warned me against . . . .

[Cato]

For those who have the time, take a look at the score for the Sonatina for cello and piano, which Karl made available on the previous page.

It's a barn-burner!   0:)

[Karl Henning]

Hose down your barns!

[Karl Henning]

Well, there's a chap at NEC I've met (and I thought the meeting went well enow), and I hain't heard back from him since.  Significant?

To-day a data point comes in that it may just be a question of a flaky personality.  Not necessarily a deal-breaker, natch, but . . . higher maintenance than I was aware of, and lawd knows of all my copious free time.

Still, inaction is not an option.

In short:  No news, and working behind the scenes to generate something akin to news.

[Karl Henning]

I found the work-around!  I mean, I started a fresh file, wherein the tempo marking were behaving as they ought, and I copied-&-pasted the work from the now-old file.

I do think it may be completely, utterly done:

For those who do not get enough of an idea of the Cello Sonatina from the score, and who can bear the horrors of MIDI, listen here.

[ibanezmonster]

Did you use Sibelius 5 for this? That cello sounds VERY "MIDI-ish," indeed. That's why I love Sibelius 6 so much- excellent playback with Sound Essentials built-in, and the absence of the retarded Ribbon menu that 7 has.

This would sound good live, of course, without that MIDI cello lol.

[Karl Henning]

Yes, an actual cello sounds much, much better.

[TheGSMoeller]

Yes, an actual cello sounds much, much better.

Not if you're a robot. (assuming robots love MIDI sounds)

[Karl Henning]

I make it a practice to assume nothing regarding what robots may love. (Although there was that one-act play I wrote at Wooster . . . .)

[Karl Henning]

Guess that's it really ... Greg was justifiably withering about the MIDI cello ....

[mahler10th]

By all the Boston Bruins, I thought I would pop in and see how things were going with the Cantata.

[Karl Henning]

The Cantata is not yet brewin' in Boston, it's still maltin'.

[Karl Henning]

Mi vida loca

[TheGSMoeller]

Mi vida loca

DOH!

But hey, priorities, right?

[Karl Henning]

Exactly!

And . . . here is the current state of #5:

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[Karl Henning]

Part of what I was a-scribbling on the train was the inverted canon in what is now mm. 55-71. I mean, so what, a canon, you can't throw a brick without hitting a composer who's writ a canon. But: it sounds mighty cool. That's what I'm talkin'.

[mahler10th]

That's what I'm talkin'.

LOL

"Okay, when you're done with that thing brother, lay it on the music table out here so we can hear it.  Let us hear that canon blow!"