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North Star · June 05, 2015, 08:03:56 AM

Quote from: karlhenning on June 05, 2015, 07:02:22 AM
On my walk this morning, I beheld the title for this piece: The Young Lady Holding a Phone in Her Teeth.

A companion piece to Poulenc: Les dents humaines

Karl Henning · June 05, 2015, 08:13:29 AM

Hah!

"Beautiful melodies" are demanded. Will report!

Karl Henning · June 05, 2015, 03:43:08 PM

Well, they cannot fault me, if we do not get to the beautiful melodies in the first ten seconds of the piece, right?

Karl Henning · June 06, 2015, 11:39:56 AM

The beautiful melody (and sometimes allowed to be so) is all over this one, now finished (again)

Karl Henning · June 08, 2015, 04:08:49 AM

How is this, Luke? Not too fussy with the alterations, do you think?

Karl Henning · June 08, 2015, 05:12:00 AM

A slight gain, will think about it . . . .

Karl Henning · June 08, 2015, 11:56:57 AM

Just having good fun with it, really.

Cato · June 08, 2015, 12:32:28 PM

Quote from: karlhenning on June 08, 2015, 11:56:57 AM
Just having good fun with it, really.

Does the group need to see an entire work, or would the opening pages be enough to convince them?

Karl Henning · June 08, 2015, 02:12:40 PM

Well, they want just the start of a piece. I think I'll give them 100-120 measures.

Luke · June 09, 2015, 03:36:38 AM

Quote from: karlhenning on June 08, 2015, 04:08:49 AM
How is this, Luke? Not too fussy with the alterations, do you think?

Much easier to read, I think, Karl. Really clarifies things. It's silly, isn't it - there's no material difference, they ought to be equally easy to play, but just that little change in where the ink flows figuration-wise completely changes the effect on the performer, the pianist's relationship with the notes. Maybe I was just being lazy... I don't like to think so but if I was it would at least enable the criminally awful pun that new notation is not so much Lutoslawski's Lullaby as Luke O's Lazy Lullaby....

I'm sorry. So, so sorry. Kill me now.

Karl Henning · June 09, 2015, 05:44:08 AM

Karl Henning · June 09, 2015, 11:14:29 AM

More . . . and I felt it was sensible to ratchet the metronome marking down a shade. (Must be a mixed metaphor.)

Karl Henning · June 11, 2015, 04:10:45 AM

Not ashamed to admit that I am well engaged with this double quintet . . . it helps (a) that I am pretty much writing it as I wish, and let Kammerwerke like it or not, as they may; and (b) if Kammerwerke find that the piece is insufficient in beautiful melody, it's a good piece to offer to the NEC ensemble, anyway.

Did some sketching on this morning's bus; so the vacation has done its refreshing duties.

Karl Henning · June 12, 2015, 01:57:13 AM

The piece so far:

[ see below ]

Karl Henning · June 12, 2015, 06:31:28 AM

Quote from: karlhenning on June 09, 2015, 11:14:29 AM
More . . . and I felt it was sensible to ratchet the metronome marking down a shade. (Must be a mixed metaphor.)

All right; there are a few measures where the figuration is, if not genuinely impossible at that speed, quite probably unnecessarily demanding. So I shall tweak those bits.

On the bus yesterday and today, I have puttered with A Line; chances are, I should be able to fold that into the score tonight. I have another idea or two, and I think that when I have brought them aboard, I shall pronounce the "audition piece" done.

Karl Henning · June 12, 2015, 05:42:30 PM

The Line works rather nicely; need to round out a counterpoint to it, then I can post the next phase . . . .

Karl Henning · June 13, 2015, 05:06:51 AM

Okay, quite happy with 'er so far:

Karl Henning · June 13, 2015, 05:11:51 AM

Oh! The score . . .

Karl Henning · June 13, 2015, 02:39:12 PM

In moving so many CDs to wallets for easy storage, I've had (let's call it) a drawer-full of CD booklets, which only this week have been all in the same room. As of today, I have at last organized them tidily.

Yes, this is still sinking in, slowly.

Karl Henning · June 15, 2015, 09:31:35 AM

Quote from: karlhenning on June 13, 2015, 02:39:12 PM
In moving so many CDs to wallets for easy storage, I've had (let's call it) a drawer-full of CD booklets, which only this week have been all in the same room. As of today, I have at last organized them tidily.

Yes, this is still sinking in, slowly.

For one thing, I've fit them all into two plastic boxes (one longer, the other almost half-length), but both boxes are quite tight with the booklets. And (I should perhaps blush) I have more booklets now to fold into the collection. So I've picked up a second of the shorter boxes. Each of the shorter boxes will hold half of my booklets for 20^th-c. music, and all the rest will fit readily in the longer box.