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Mrs. Kerfoops
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" When you dealin' with creativity, don't try to get intelligent, 'cos it doesn't work. Juss go wid what you feel man." - Barry White How true that is! Do other composer-members agree that that is the only right and effective way to write music? |
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Ruby2
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« Reply #1 on: 09:12:18, 27-10-2008 » |
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I just start with an 'M' and the rest sort of follows, but then I've always been quite good at spelling. Poor Barry White.
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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martle
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« Reply #2 on: 09:24:03, 27-10-2008 » |
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I always had rather a soft spot for Bazzer...  ...however lazy and superficial his comments on creativity may have been. Mrs K, are you quoting him from an acknowledged text? If so, please cite it responsibly. Or are you 'juss goin wid da flow'?  |
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Green. Always green.
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Milly Jones
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« Reply #3 on: 10:24:47, 27-10-2008 » |
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Baz has a real sexy voice innit? I went to see him once. 20 stone+! Hardly surprising he didn't survive I suppose. Great voice though. To get back on topic, my efforts at composing are abysmal. Everything sounds either cheesy and twee or very familiar, in a plagiaristic sort of way.  In the past I've thought, Wow! I've done something there, only to realise that it's part of one of Mozart's lesser known pieces. All the same, if Andrew Lloyd Webber can do it and make a fortune....  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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IgnorantRockFan
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« Reply #4 on: 11:08:32, 27-10-2008 » |
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I dimly remember being taught at school that if you only use the "black notes" you can write them down randomly and it will always sound pleasing as those notes cannot produce discords. But the results will sound Chinese Is this actually true? |
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Allegro, ma non tanto
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« Reply #5 on: 11:38:12, 27-10-2008 » |
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I dimly remember being taught at school that if you only use the "black notes" you can write them down randomly and it will always sound pleasing as those notes cannot produce discords. But the results will sound Chinese Is this actually true? Not really, IRF! The black notes on a piano happen to give you a pentatonic scale, which is a scale used in many different folk musics from all over the world (including much British folk music). As for 'discords', the scale does contain major seconds, but no semitones (two adjacent notes on a piano, irrespective of their colour), so it depends how 'discordant' you want to be  Both types of second are discordant in purely tonal terms. The Chinese business probably comes from the fact that you can play 'chopsticks' using just the black notes. |
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IgnorantRockFan
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« Reply #6 on: 11:43:37, 27-10-2008 » |
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The Chinese business probably comes from the fact that you can play 'chopsticks' using just the black notes.
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Allegro, ma non tanto
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« Reply #7 on: 11:55:51, 27-10-2008 » |
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I dimly remember being taught at school that if you only use the "black notes" you can write them down randomly and it will always sound pleasing as those notes cannot produce discords. But the results will sound Chinese Is this actually true? The black notes on a piano... Oh on a piano! Thanks for clearing that up for me. I was thinking "what, just crotchets and smaller?"  |
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"Two wrongs don't make a right. But three rights do make a left." - Rohan Candappa
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May the Force be with you.
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« Reply #8 on: 12:56:25, 27-10-2008 » |
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" When you dealin' with creativity, don't try to get intelligent, 'cos it doesn't work. Juss go wid what you feel man." - Barry White How true that is! Do other composer-members agree that that is the only right and effective way to write music? Dis am de truth man! Wedder you's Baz or Bach just poke it all out! |
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Mrs. Kerfoops
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« Reply #9 on: 13:43:31, 27-10-2008 » |
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Mrs K, are you quoting him from an acknowledged text? If so, please cite it responsibly. The member clearly such a stickler for responsibility may rest assured; we were bowled over by the rightness of these words of this Mr. White as depicted in a bio-"graphical" programme - " Let the Music Play - the Barry White Story" - which we "taped" from the tele-vision "set" and re-playing it several times were able to transcribe them all individually and with the utmost care. His mother loved the classics you know; but he was brought up in altogether very unsuitable circumstances. What he said remains a timely reminder for the more abstruse kind of modernist composer does not it? |
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #10 on: 17:51:29, 27-10-2008 » |
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Which sits oddly with your admiration for Bach, Mrs K. The Art of Fugue is hardly going with the flow.
You're my first, you're my last, you're my everything...
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #11 on: 18:46:34, 27-10-2008 » |
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You're my first, you're my last, you're my everything...
Sounds more like Machaut to me... |
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'is this all we can do?' anonymous student of the University of Berkeley, California quoted in H. Draper, 'The new student revolt' (New York: Grove Press, 1965) http://www.myspace.com/itensemble |
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« Reply #12 on: 18:48:55, 27-10-2008 » |
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You're my first, you're my last, you're my everything...
Sounds more like Machaut to me... Or Cilla Black . . . |
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« Reply #13 on: 18:58:28, 27-10-2008 » |
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A member of this forum was once chided by a player of my instrument (not my personal instrument, you understand) for not being able to work on a composition because his computer was on the blink.
"Why can't you just write what you hear?"
"That's what I use the computer for."
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richard barrett
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« Reply #14 on: 19:03:14, 27-10-2008 » |
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"Why can't you just write what you hear?"
"... because if I've already heard it someone else must already have written it." |
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