Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[lukeottevanger]

Of course! I sometimes spare a thought, however, for those pre-final-version scores of e.g. the Canticle Sonata or the piano Sonata which were downloaded by guests viewing the page. Ah well, can't be helped - my own fault in any case!

[Guido]

Make some space in the ol' inbox would you chap?

[lukeottevanger]

Is it full again? Sorry - consider it done.

[lukeottevanger]

Another version of the score, more cautiously named this time!

[karlhenning]

I like the ending.

Nit-picky editing note:  which plays a continuous roll, two spelling errata.

[lukeottevanger]

I like the ending.

Nit-picky editing note:  which plays a continuous roll, two spelling errata.

That's what I pay you for! I make a lot of slips like this, working at the laptop, but I hope I pick most of them up!

[karlhenning]

We all make those little mistakes, and rely on others' eyes to assist in mending them 

[karlhenning]

Also, let me compliment you specifically on how graceful, elegant, and organic (meaning how naturally it 'belongs' to the earlier material, not that it smells funny) an ending you've composed here.  I don't know how much you may have labored (or not) over this, Luke, but the result is of apparent ease;  nor does it look as if there was any point at which you had done writing earlier, and wondered whither hence.

Well done!

[lukeottevanger]

Also, let me compliment you specifically on how graceful, elegant, and organic (meaning how naturally it 'belongs' to the earlier material, not that it smells funny) an ending you've composed here.  I don't know how much you may have labored (or not) over this, Luke, but the result is of apparent ease;  nor does it look as if there was any point at which you had done writing earlier, and wondered whither hence.

Well done!

Thanks, Karl.

Truth is, I always knew how the piece would continue - the whole thing was conceived in one sweep, though the slightly aleatory techniques used in the last few pages were only decided on after the piece was half done. (If I hadn't used them, I'd have composed something which sounded pretty much the same as this, though). Apart from this, it was only the details which needed to be worked over, and I found it quite tedious to do so, which was at least part of the reason for the delay.

[karlhenning]

Understand that situation, entirely.

[Guido]

Very nice ending - can't wait to hear it. IT's also visually very arresting - would do the mystery scores thread proud!

[Guido]

Also do you know who will be doing the honours of playing the piano part in the performance? Might it be your good self?

something nit picky in the score - it's not entirely clear what the second cellist is meant to be doing in bar 64 of the ascent - is it just a rest missing here?

[lukeottevanger]

Here? Can't see a problem.... maybe I'm being stupid!

[lukeottevanger]

(I like having this private army of proof-readers!)

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

In Ascent you have expressed a mountain in time signatures, Luke: from base (7/8) to summit (1/8).

Ah, to hear a real orchestra getting its teeth into this... Will the performance be taped?

[lukeottevanger]

In Ascent you have expressed a mountain in time signatures, Luke: from base (7/8) to summit (1/8).

Ah, to hear a real orchestra getting its teeth into this... Will the performance be taped?

I'll make sure of it. Might even get someone to film it too. Though if, as suspected by Guido, I end up playing the piano part, that may not be a good idea!

[lukeottevanger]

Of course, Ascent is implicitly full of Kailash-related imagery, thus of Buddhist and Hindu imagery. But the real theme of the music is non-doctrinal. The mountain is a metaphor for the Self, and thus in ascending it one comes closer to the centre and the essence. Here's something from the mystic Christian tradition I found the other day which is also appropriate (Angelus Silesius):

I am a hill of God, and must myself ascend
That God may then reveal his face to me, my friend.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Of course, Ascent is implicitly full of Kailash-related imagery, thus of Buddhist and Hindu imagery. But the real theme of the music is non-doctrinal. The mountain is a metaphor for the Self, and thus in ascending it one comes closer to the centre and the essence. Here's something from the mystic Christian tradition I found the other day which is also appropriate (Angelus Silesius):

I am a hill of God, and must myself ascend
That God may then reveal his face to me, my friend.

I understand completely. The Mountain also plays a role in my work, helped too by my German surname, Herrenberg, which translates as Mountain of the Lord(s)...

[Guido]

Sorry - just assumed that the triplet applied to both lines. It doesn't.

[Homo Aestheticus]

Luke,

OT:

When you get a chance please delete a few of your private messages; your inbox is completely full.

Thanks.