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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 [...]

Continue reading " Fever "

Good session today.  A bit too creative – pulling apart different tetrachords out of the octal set and recombining them into new structures.  Appealing figures of light, although it lead to new experimentations in transformations which lead to more work to do – without settlement and on and on.  So, I leave open this section [...]

Continue reading " Smoothy "

Spent most of the day listening to concerti, starting with Ravel and Prokofiev and ending with Saint Saen, of all composers.  Ravel’s G major concerto is still in my opinion the most perfect piano concerto ever written –  too many technical reasons to mention here but lets just underline the whole thing with the word balanced [...]

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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 [...]

Continue reading " Twist and Turn "

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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 [...]

Continue reading " Lightness "

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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 [...]

Continue reading " Duality "

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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 [...]

Continue reading " Steady "

48 songs is quite a bit to dish out, so I’ll just begin with a start and add a few every day.  Reminder that these songs are not all the ultimate greatest songs of all time, and certainly I left a lot of good ones in my listening bin.  These are songs I felt I [...]

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