Short and sweet composerly evening.  Looked at secondary tetrachords – 4-note sets that are embedded in a series of common hexachords within the octad that I am working with.  Why?  Well, it can add as secondary harmony and contrast to what I have in the main tetrachord I am working with for this movement.  A [...]

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Tonights composerly session was spent reviewing what I had accomplished these last few days and looking again in my chest of notes for anything else.  I also upgraded some software and plugins,and generally tuned up things a bit for the eventual decision on when to compostrate this work.
Beginning, I just let the [...]

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Short and sweet composer session tonight working on some variants of the main tetrachords on this octal set…rotating them this way and that way to see what kind of melodic materials and contrasting modal references I can find within the general confides of a scale like pattern.  Then improvising chains – [...]

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Feeling a bit under the weather tonight.  Short compositional treat at the piano, but really nothing much in new material.  Looked at some old with fresh analytical eye.  Last evening in bed, sketched out a brief outline of the sections and the tonal areas for the work.  Feeling pretty good about [...]

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Much of the day, in fact all of the day, at the piano – drifting in and out.  Playing.  Constructing.  Right brain had a field of a time – changing and reshaping what was previously completed, finding new materials, runs, arpeggios, melodic fragments, a bit of everything.   Simplifying yet again the [...]

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Lightness at the score this evening, as I finish up a review of the opening bars.  It seems to present itself OK in sketch form at least – as far as I can go without orchestration to fill it out.  The timing might be forgivable because of that unknown, and I’m not [...]

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More back and forth tonight.  Indeed the transformation into the contrasting section falls nicely into T6 and T4.  Which one?  Oh hell, I don’t know yet.  I guess we will make a firmer decision when I actually delve into that set area and write it out.
Tonight, I noodled and doodled around with [...]

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Simple evening at the computer and paper.  Compositionally very tired and hard to concentrate, and ended up just tweaking a a bit what I had from the night before for about an hour.  I still don’t feel it’s final.  There are a few notes here and there that seem to move [...]

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