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Mar. 16th, 2004 05:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reldnahkramSo I spent an hour or two in Lang this afternoon trying to work on my composition stuff. I spent the first hour in Underhill, listening to the beginning of Rite of Spring and Hindemith's Bassoon and Piano Sonata. As you may have guessed, one of the pieces I'm working on is for bassoon. Of course, when I went upstairs and started actually writing, I got 2 1/2 lines of music written and hit a wall. I have ideas - motives, if you will, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting them anywhere. Either I'll leave them behind (as in the bassoon piece) or just keep hammering them again and again, not varying them enough, as in my other piece (clarinet).
Ultimately, the problem may be that I'm not a huge fan of atonal music, which is what I'm trying to write. I ended up writing a measure or so of chorale, just to write something that makes sense. At some point, it's going to come to a head and I'm going to end up writing very tonal music for Jerry, and we'll see what happens. I mean, there's only so much atonal music I can tolerate, and it's within the realm of possibility that heaven is a very large organ and JSB playing chorales 24-7.
On a lighter note, it looks like Sarah Harmer has a new album out. And I think I now know what Xmas feels like for little kids, lounging around my room this morning, knowing TO was on the verge of coming to town, just waiting for the announcement. I guess it's like that feeling that it's just too early to do anything, but everything you want is sitting downstairs under the tree. Oh well, I didn't need much as a child, and I'm still pretty low maintenance, so don't pity me.
Ultimately, the problem may be that I'm not a huge fan of atonal music, which is what I'm trying to write. I ended up writing a measure or so of chorale, just to write something that makes sense. At some point, it's going to come to a head and I'm going to end up writing very tonal music for Jerry, and we'll see what happens. I mean, there's only so much atonal music I can tolerate, and it's within the realm of possibility that heaven is a very large organ and JSB playing chorales 24-7.
On a lighter note, it looks like Sarah Harmer has a new album out. And I think I now know what Xmas feels like for little kids, lounging around my room this morning, knowing TO was on the verge of coming to town, just waiting for the announcement. I guess it's like that feeling that it's just too early to do anything, but everything you want is sitting downstairs under the tree. Oh well, I didn't need much as a child, and I'm still pretty low maintenance, so don't pity me.
