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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The news year holiday weekend closes in good faith, as I got a lot accomplished on the piano work – driving through the materials I have, and finding new ones.  It’s surprises me how you can look at the same materials day in and day out, and then suddenly wholla, something else [...]

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I’ve been writing letters to old friends, telling them stories about my adventures – sailing and other life stories about them…memories.  So, needless to say, another non productive week…however
I find it interesting I am back with an interest in listening to commercial stuff – the alternative pop/rock of Tori…finding something of interest in production value [...]

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The holiday time is supposed to be one massive end of year party for everyone to get together and rejoice in what knots and gifts.  However, for me, things aren’t so rejoiceful as I have started to notice more clearly that the what knots I am indulging is more an annoyance than joyful bliss.  On [...]

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Intense listening this week. Imagining how I can bring out certain qualities of the interaction of three streams of notes using orchestration in this sectino. I found a lot of potential. Listening more closely…finding the length of the section may be too long, so I redesigned it by cutting the distribution in [...]

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Added the third line into the mix and performed a very careful review – as a listener. I really love this particular section. I’m not sure others will like it – the repetition can be annoying if you don’t know how to relax your mind and just listen – no particular concentration…just relax [...]

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