A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~
The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~
...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~
My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Wednesday, January 01, 2014
From a Notebook, 1 January
A small piece for solo piccolo on the perceptual threshold of a recognizable regular tempo, with at least three areas of notational ambiguity — grace notes, lipped glissandi, and varied levels of vibrato (speed? width?) — for the player to consider.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the instruction not to subdivide. I wrote a piece in 2/2 with a tempo of 24 and when all the singers started to subdivide, it through the entire feel of the piece off. Long stretches of time should be honored.
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I can't tell you how much I appreciate the instruction not to subdivide. I wrote a piece in 2/2 with a tempo of 24 and when all the singers started to subdivide, it through the entire feel of the piece off. Long stretches of time should be honored.
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