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« Reply #4830 on: 22:52:16, 28-09-2008 » |
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I am glad that it all went well for you Milly!! Nice one!
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« Reply #4831 on: 08:47:46, 29-09-2008 » |
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Bravissima Milly!! That's lovely to hear.
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« Reply #4832 on: 08:53:40, 29-09-2008 » |
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I think Milly ought to be Secretary of State for R3ok!!!  Onto something completly different. At band rehearsal last friday, we were playing Duke Ellington's In a Sentimental Mood, yeah. how do you explain to someone, that Eb and D# are two totrally different notes and not the same. We bass players had Eb in one bar, semi breve, and D# the next, semi breve. The last was the last bar!! From an exasperated musician!!! This particular player has been playing for quite a few years as well!!! |
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« Reply #4833 on: 13:06:41, 29-09-2008 » |
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Onto something completly different. At band rehearsal last friday, we were playing Duke Ellington's In a Sentimental Mood, yeah. how do you explain to someone, that Eb and D# are two totrally different notes and not the same. We bass players had Eb in one bar, semi breve, and D# the next, semi breve. The last was the last bar!! From an exasperated musician!!! This particular player has been playing for quite a few years as well!!!
Interesting ... Do you play those differently on all brass instruments, bbm? You can't on a piano; you do on a stringed instrument, although it's hard to imagine a harmonic context in which one would directly precede the other. Might you not regard it as an enharmonic change made for notational convenience in certain contexts? What is it, different embouchure or a completely different valve (e.g. D# as a harmonic of B vs. Eb as a harmonic of F/Ab)?? |
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« Reply #4834 on: 13:23:05, 29-09-2008 » |
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As far as I'm concerned, in my generation most instrumentalists have been taught (at least not until an advanced stage) in such a way as to regard D# and Eb as equivalent. There are obviously spelling considerations at play to indicate voice leading and tonal directionality, and I wish that more students thought about this. although it's hard to imagine a harmonic context in which one would directly precede the other.
Eb major chord (as substitute for F# major) cadencing onto a B major 1st inversion chord. Though a 1st inversion chord as a final chord is a bit unusual... |
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« Reply #4835 on: 15:00:57, 29-09-2008 » |
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There are obviously spelling considerations at play to indicate voice leading and tonal directionality, and I wish that more students thought about this. I tutored aural training at the Con in Sydney for a little while and certainly got quite cross at the students who had perfect pitch but didn't know the functional difference between F# and Gb... |
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« Reply #4836 on: 15:40:33, 29-09-2008 » |
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although it's hard to imagine a harmonic context in which one would directly precede the other.
(after hh). ... or consider a melodic suspension over a modulation by thirds in Beethoven or Schubert... happens quite a lot, actually. I'd like to say that it's depressing that instrumentalists (esp non-keyboardists) aren't taught from the beginning about the difference, but I can't say when I was finally shown the light... but, in my defens/ce, I was(!) a pianist. |
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« Reply #4837 on: 15:42:21, 29-09-2008 » |
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although it's hard to imagine a harmonic context in which one would directly precede the other.
(after hh). ... or consider a melodic suspension over a modulation by thirds in Beethoven or Schubert... Sure, but then it's arguable whether you'd want to play them as a different pitch or bend one towards the other, isn't it? That's a genuine question. I don't know, I'm just a pianist!  In any case, BBM said these were the last two bars of the piece. |
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« Reply #4838 on: 17:59:07, 29-09-2008 » |
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I'm not putting this in the Happy Room because I don't know if I'm happy yet, but I certainly have to eat my earlier Grump. The new monitor has just arrived, albeit with a very fiddly converter so that it works in the UK. Now, do I hook it up now or tomorrow? Guess if the Mortmuds Triangle is going to strike it probably doesn't matter what time of day it is. Hmm ...
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« Reply #4839 on: 18:10:53, 29-09-2008 » |
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The new monitor has just arrived, albeit with a very fiddly converter so that it works in the UK. Now, do I hook it up now or tomorrow? Guess if the Mortmuds Triangle is going to strike it probably doesn't matter what time of day it is. Hmm ...
Why does it have a fiddly convertor Mort? Surely it should just be plug and play? I'd live dangerously and hook it up now!! Then you won't have a sleepless night wondering what might happen! |
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« Reply #4840 on: 18:28:36, 29-09-2008 » |
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Ants, apparently they received complaints previously about supplying equipment with plugs that weren't UK compatible, hence the fiddly adaptor. It's now too dark to mess about with cables etc so I'll do it tomorrow in the daylight. Don't want to tempt fate!  |
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« Reply #4841 on: 18:39:33, 29-09-2008 » |
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We've just driven back from the hospital in a gale. It's very sandy round here!  Anyway, it's as I suspected - he's going to be booked in as a day case for excising the nodes and subsequent biopsy. Hopefully we'll get a date very quickly. The doc did say that they might be "reactive" nodes after a bad infection - but they won't know for sure until they get them under a microscope. The clinic was running an hour behind and then after the consultation we had to go to the new day surgery unit to give all his details. At least we've got the process moving at last. Neither of us have eaten yet - so tea is on! |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #4842 on: 19:13:13, 29-09-2008 » |
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I just read on the news that footballer Liam Lawrence is an injury doubt for Stoke's match against Portsmouth this weekend after tripping over his pet dog on the stairs and injuring his ankle. At the end of the article there was a list of "Some more freak footballing injuries": - Milan Rapaic missed several games for Hajduk Split after sticking a boarding pass in his eye at the airport.
- Dave Beasant was kept out by a foot injury caused by a falling jar of salad cream.
- Darren Barnard injured a knee ligament after slipping on an errant pee left by his dog on the kitchen floor. The last one gives particular pause for thought. |
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« Reply #4843 on: 19:18:04, 29-09-2008 » |
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Fingers crossed Milly for you both and bearing in mind his abcess and previous life-style (and presumably poor nutrition?) it could very well be a result of infection. Let us hope so. Isn't it getting dark early? Only 7pm and dark as anything. Just while I am waiting for dinner to cook I have been thinking about Mary Chambers and her dilemma about name for new grandchild. How childhood experiences colour out perception of a name. When I was at Junior School there were two girls who both shared the same Christian name. One was fat and a bully and the other was a weasel faced sneak. Since then I have had a total aversion to that name (I won't say what it is in case anyone here is called that!) and when meeting anyone who has that name I feel total distrust. On the other hand I had a violent crush on Rosalind Glyn-Jones <swoon> and just adore the name. Silly isn't it? Just doing a round-up of latest tribe members' names and we are pretty conservative it seems, the girls are: Julia, Jennifer, Niamh, Emily, Jessica, Charlotte and Lucy. Middle names are Catherine, Mary, Jasmine? Louise and Louisa! Anna and Elizabeth (won't post first and second names together for fear of identifying.) Boys are Jacob, Oliver, Aaron and Ethan. A little more adventurous in the male naming department perhaps? But not a Rees nor a Rhodri or even a Haydn in sight!  |
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