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I left my mind in Lang
May. 14th, 2004 01:17 amYou'll note I haven't posted much. I've been busier than I thought I would be this week.
The Med/Ren final was not bad, but could have been better. I'll wait until![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
think_too_much has taken it to say more. My composition didn't go nearly as well as I would like, we'll see what happens tomorrow, and what Jerry thinks. Basically, the third movement feels like a bunch of little flighty bits that sort of dither a bit before coming back to the main themey bit. Ultimately, I want it to be a short movement, but I barely touch on any of the ideas in the non main themey bits before going back. We'll see how it goes when I sleep on it.
The UI for Sibelius sucks. It's possible I'm just not used to it, but it's just not designed very well. The amount of features it provides is staggering, and many of them are implemented quite well (especially hairpins and slurs), but using the program is just a pain. Admitedly, my music is kinda rough to input into a computer, as there's no regular measure length. I then have to deal with splitting measures over line breaks, and so I end up having to define a measure's time signature two or three times. This is just a pain. But the UI is really unfortunate. There's a datapad of options of things you can do to notes, including duration, accidentals, phrasing, barring, etc. That's all well and good, but it's very inefficient to input music notation wise into a computer using only the mouse, you need keyboard shortcuts. In a moment of blinding brilliance, the Sibelius designers mapped the datapad to the number keypad. *headsmack* The number keypad wants to be used with the right hand. So does the mouse. What a good music notation program will have is all the keyboard shortcuts managed by the left hand, so the right hand is free to operate the mouse, inputting pitch and location. Correction - there should be a lefty mode where the hands are reversed, but that's just me being considerate to all of you folks who are backwards.
Is it just me, or does it sorta feel like the end of summer camp. The heat is much more appropriate for summer than spring. Maybe it's because I spent the evening mostly alone in Lang, and then had a decent conversation about the music dep't withqianian, and it just felt like an end of camp type conversation. Not really sure why. Being all along in Lang was kinda neat. I left the practice room door open and just let whatever I was doing spill out into the hall. qianian, do you think you could recreate what you said to me about my compositional process? You know, the thing about a few notes...and yodeling.
I'm going to miss Judy's 'go home and relax' talk she used to give me whenever I went to return my key. I can only assume she did that for everyone. She'll be missed.
I've acquired (Old) Ben's ancient Palm IIIx. Because I'm a lazy bum, if you want to get inputted into it sooner rather than later, e-mail me your info. I'd recommend not commenting it, because that'll be public.
The Med/Ren final was not bad, but could have been better. I'll wait until
think_too_much has taken it to say more. My composition didn't go nearly as well as I would like, we'll see what happens tomorrow, and what Jerry thinks. Basically, the third movement feels like a bunch of little flighty bits that sort of dither a bit before coming back to the main themey bit. Ultimately, I want it to be a short movement, but I barely touch on any of the ideas in the non main themey bits before going back. We'll see how it goes when I sleep on it.The UI for Sibelius sucks. It's possible I'm just not used to it, but it's just not designed very well. The amount of features it provides is staggering, and many of them are implemented quite well (especially hairpins and slurs), but using the program is just a pain. Admitedly, my music is kinda rough to input into a computer, as there's no regular measure length. I then have to deal with splitting measures over line breaks, and so I end up having to define a measure's time signature two or three times. This is just a pain. But the UI is really unfortunate. There's a datapad of options of things you can do to notes, including duration, accidentals, phrasing, barring, etc. That's all well and good, but it's very inefficient to input music notation wise into a computer using only the mouse, you need keyboard shortcuts. In a moment of blinding brilliance, the Sibelius designers mapped the datapad to the number keypad. *headsmack* The number keypad wants to be used with the right hand. So does the mouse. What a good music notation program will have is all the keyboard shortcuts managed by the left hand, so the right hand is free to operate the mouse, inputting pitch and location. Correction - there should be a lefty mode where the hands are reversed, but that's just me being considerate to all of you folks who are backwards.
Is it just me, or does it sorta feel like the end of summer camp. The heat is much more appropriate for summer than spring. Maybe it's because I spent the evening mostly alone in Lang, and then had a decent conversation about the music dep't with
qianian, and it just felt like an end of camp type conversation. Not really sure why. Being all along in Lang was kinda neat. I left the practice room door open and just let whatever I was doing spill out into the hall. qianian, do you think you could recreate what you said to me about my compositional process? You know, the thing about a few notes...and yodeling.I'm going to miss Judy's 'go home and relax' talk she used to give me whenever I went to return my key. I can only assume she did that for everyone. She'll be missed.
I've acquired (Old) Ben's ancient Palm IIIx. Because I'm a lazy bum, if you want to get inputted into it sooner rather than later, e-mail me your info. I'd recommend not commenting it, because that'll be public.
