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« Reply #135 on: 17:43:22, 30-09-2007 » |
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This afternoon, I've written a short piece for recorder and piano for my friend who plays. It's very sad and in B minor.
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« Reply #136 on: 19:50:42, 30-09-2007 » |
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Does anyone have any ideas about storage of sketch material?
I've got tons of it and I'm loathe to chuck it but I'd like to be able to store it so it's accessible and so that if I want the sketches for one piece I can find them.
Hayelp!
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« Reply #137 on: 20:11:58, 30-09-2007 » |
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Get one of those chest o' drawers that visual artists use, or dedicate one or many bookshelves to the flat storage of papers.  |
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« Reply #138 on: 20:18:05, 30-09-2007 » |
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Hmmm. That's a long term solution. Could really do with some cheap and efficient (space is probably going to be tight in whatever flat I can afford) ideas...
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« Reply #139 on: 20:27:05, 30-09-2007 » |
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Does anyone have any ideas about storage of sketch material?
I've got tons of it and I'm loathe to chuck it but I'd like to be able to store it so it's accessible and so that if I want the sketches for one piece I can find them.
Hayelp! Everything up until the time I left the UK is in my parents' attic in Swansea (at least I hope it is!), and the rest is in large cardboard boxes under the table and desk in my office. One anti-sentimental day I think I'll sift through to find the stuff I might conceivably want to look at again and bin the rest. Mind you I've been in a few flats in Edinburgh and they do tend to be pretty large, at least compared to down south. |
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« Reply #140 on: 22:00:53, 30-09-2007 » |
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Does anyone have any ideas about storage of sketch material?
I cannot bring myslef to throw anything of this nature out. I just can't ; because I know deep down that I'll be depriving musicologists of the future the chance to discover the profundities of my thinking I'm convinced there's stuff in there that will point to a way forward when I've lost the ability to see one for myself. So anywhere will do - under the bed/floorboards?  |
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« Reply #141 on: 22:49:54, 30-09-2007 » |
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Does anyone have any ideas about storage of sketch material?
I cannot bring myslef to throw anything of this nature out. I just can't ; because I'm convinced there's stuff in there that will point to a way forward when I've lost the ability to see one for myself. So anywhere will do - under the bed/floorboards? The most important bits of paper to keep are those with a) pizza delivery telephone numbers, b) possible program-note solutions... c) collected 'best of' chafer-quotes, d) passages with a lot of c sharp otherwise I just throw almost all old papers out: simply don't have the space to stack the old sketches, most of which really does belong to the past. |
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« Reply #142 on: 22:52:17, 30-09-2007 » |
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Someone here told me off for destroying manuscripts so I would say keep it all! Not sure where though so not really being much help...
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Best regards,
Jonathan
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« Reply #143 on: 11:17:09, 01-10-2007 » |
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One can never be certain - still less permanently - that any decision to destroy any of one's work will be / have been a / the correct one; that said, I've only ever regretted destroying one of my mss. and that was one out of quite a lot over the years.
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« Reply #144 on: 12:23:16, 01-10-2007 » |
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Anyone done composing serious music for brass band?? I play in a 4th section band at the moment. Any takers??
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BBM, it was an arrangement of an orchestral piece of mine, but I have in that sense written for brass band (for the National Youth BB). And what a strange and alien creature it felt like! It took me many drafts to even start getting it right; but I think I did eventually, thanks to the very patient conductor. It's not just the unusual instruments (unusual for me, anyway), the brass band just 'behaves' so differently from, say, an orchestral wind band. I learnt a lot. And that sound! (Especially quiet tuttis.)  |
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« Reply #146 on: 15:46:14, 01-10-2007 » |
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Does anyone have any ideas about storage of sketch material?
I've got tons of it and I'm loathe to chuck it but I'd like to be able to store it so it's accessible and so that if I want the sketches for one piece I can find them.
Hayelp!
You *could* digitize it...Have a big day of nostalgia scanning it all in looking over it, make a few backups (send some to your parents if you must), and then toss away the originals. |
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« Reply #147 on: 16:58:06, 01-10-2007 » |
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Does anyone have any ideas about storage of sketch material?
I've got tons of it and I'm loathe to chuck it but I'd like to be able to store it so it's accessible and so that if I want the sketches for one piece I can find them.
Hayelp! Everything up until the time I left the UK is in my parents' attic in Swansea (at least I hope it is!), and the rest is in large cardboard boxes under the table and desk in my office. One anti-sentimental day I think I'll sift through to find the stuff I might conceivably want to look at again and bin the rest. I almost went that route this weekend ... the box was packed and I picked it up and started walking down the stairs to my parents' car (they've kindly agreed to store all sorts of crap I don't want to pay to ship to Huddersfield), and thought ... "nope, can't do it." Walked back upstairs and put it in the to-be-shipped pile. (I did sift through it, though, and chucked all the things that didn't seem like they'd be useful.) hh ... my storage solution is a cardboard box that's short enough to fit under my bed. I would think those plastic under-bed sweater boxes would work, too? |
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