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Author Topic: Composers who use Silly Descriptions do themselves a Great Disservice!  (Read 1018 times)
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« Reply #30 on: 10:19:46, 19-08-2008 »

You seem to be suggesting a rarity of teeth in the establishment -your own of course deployed with gentlemanly restraint. (My canine mode leads me to a yen to bite corporatedom at times)
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« Reply #31 on: 10:35:58, 19-08-2008 »

I do usually try not to bite people in supermarkets, but, you know, sometimes one just can't help oneself.
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« Reply #32 on: 11:20:42, 19-08-2008 »

I do usually try not to bite people in supermarkets, but, you know, sometimes one just can't help oneself.
Ah well they do say you should never go food shopping on an empty stomach...

Yes it was spoken to a child - our Morrisons is usually full of screaming (and evidently biting) ones.  What a joy.  Smiley
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« Reply #33 on: 13:59:18, 19-08-2008 »

That said, who hasn't chosen to buy [...] a bottle of wine because the bottle or label was nice?  Just as silly I suppose.  Smiley

I firmly believe that you can tell the difference between good and bad wine by the font on the label. 'Believe', in this context, as there is absolutely no empirical evidence in favour of it. Certainly, no good wine could ever use Helvetica. The quiet achievers use something like Palatino, while any kind of Gothic font is oh so classy!

I quite like the idea of a title being something that you're aware of throughout the entire process of composition, but this is very rarely the case for me. Quite often I find myself in a position days ahead of needing to deliver the work, still desperately trying to come up with something that reflects my understanding of the music. At worst, this results in pretentious neologisms that take twenty minutes to adequately explain. I was all for neologisms before I learned that, yes, people do ask!
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« Reply #34 on: 14:25:18, 19-08-2008 »


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« Reply #35 on: 14:57:09, 19-08-2008 »

That reminds me of Cardhu, Oban, Bowmore, Laphroaig and Talisker which are all works by the Belgian composer Luc Brewaeys, and yes, they are supposed to reflect the character of each whisky.

An early example of this kind of title was of course Rachmaninov's The Bells.
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« Reply #36 on: 15:18:58, 19-08-2008 »

Cardhu
Oh. I thought that was a companion piece to Howard Skempton's well, well, cornelius ...
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« Reply #37 on: 15:28:02, 19-08-2008 »

'Believe', in this context, as there is absolutely no empirical evidence in favour of it. Certainly, no good wine could ever use Helvetica. The quiet achievers use something like Palatino, while any kind of Gothic font is oh so classy!
It's not beyond the bounds of possibility.  A good wine is presumably more profitable, hence the producers can presumably afford better designers...  Smiley
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« Reply #38 on: 15:29:17, 19-08-2008 »

That reminds me of Cardhu, Oban, Bowmore, Laphroaig and Talisker which are all works by the Belgian composer Luc Brewaeys, and yes, they are supposed to reflect the character of each whisky.

An early example of this kind of title was of course Rachmaninov's The Bells.
An ex of mine recorded a tape of his own compositions on acoustic guitar for me once, all themed on brands of coffee.  I think I liked Alta Rica the best.
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