Next Monday I'll be starting on a new composition, based on material from Twenty-Seven. The latter half of it has always appealed to me. I might try and work in some material from the tuba solo in Thirty. I'll shoot for seven days again, though after the eleven days it took for Thirty-Two, I'm obviously in no rush. A fully composed piece is a fully composed piece, no matter how you look at it.
I wish I had better reasoning for neglecting my compositional promises, but I've just been avoiding it. It's something I need to do, for sure. I may do a writing day this weekend, possibly about John Cage, since there is quite a bit to say about him and his ideology is one of the reasons why I chose to study music at the ripe age of 19.
So, my few faithful readers, get your bookmarks, RSS feeds and refresh button ready. I know I'll have a hard time keeping up with the Daily Composer when classes start at the end of August, so let's see if I can get some writing done before then.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
I haven't given up. Not completely!
Not that the ODEO one is bad, but I'd like to host it locally and not rely so much on third-party linking.
This one is open source and pretty nice, I believe. Thoughts?
I'll be back in the groove soon, hopefully before the week is up. I may have mentioned it before, but when I have lots of down time I tend to be very unproductive. Perhaps I should have taken a class or two this summer.
This one is open source and pretty nice, I believe. Thoughts?
I'll be back in the groove soon, hopefully before the week is up. I may have mentioned it before, but when I have lots of down time I tend to be very unproductive. Perhaps I should have taken a class or two this summer.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Thirty-two. (Day 11.)
A week later ... I needed to take a break. Bernstein may have said that composers should write two minutes of music each day, but Bernstein apparently didn't have a full time job at the same time.
Here it is, in its entirety. I think it's finished. I had some issues transitioning from the exposition into the recapitulation, but I think it should work okay. In the recap of the second theme at the end, I dropped it down to match the "key" of the first theme (although it's more of a "tonal center" than a key) and, in doing so, needed to make some orchestration adjustments.
Tomorrow I'll do some final clean up and call it quits on this piece.
Here it is, in its entirety. I think it's finished. I had some issues transitioning from the exposition into the recapitulation, but I think it should work okay. In the recap of the second theme at the end, I dropped it down to match the "key" of the first theme (although it's more of a "tonal center" than a key) and, in doing so, needed to make some orchestration adjustments.
Tomorrow I'll do some final clean up and call it quits on this piece.
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