Posts by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
(DIR) Post #B43mhTr3DNmRvIPlQ0 by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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@Violinknitter Haha, this sort of irritation was at the root, many years ago, of my journey to becoming a music editor and engraver. Note (and rest) spacing is surprisingly complex, and quite a lot of it is compromise by eye, which the software tends to fail at. But your example is definitely all wrong.
(DIR) Post #B43v3cAFncexhQShHM by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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@Violinknitter I’m not sure what software is in use here (might be Sibelius with some very thin line settings, but the beam placements are all slightly wrong so I guess early MuseScore). But they (modern music software) all have spacing algorithms that would (with default settings) not allow that. If the user forced one too many bars on to the system, that would be the sort of outcome you’d see.
(DIR) Post #B4BjGXY6cqqSxrh8ka by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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@Natasha_Jay I’ve had to edit music that looks like that.
(DIR) Post #B4Viwiu4aRhvY6idG4 by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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I feel like there’s an analogy for Kessler Syndrome in how LLMs pollute (the night sky of) our discourse.#SomewhatRandomMusings
(DIR) Post #B4urhAAJDUp40RxyiG by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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Ummm. Isn’t “the Earth’s orbit” the path of the earth around the sun? Would not ‘Artemis II leaves orbit around the earth’ be more accurate?#Artemis https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c937g7nd5x4o
(DIR) Post #B4urhApQkbiS3zCooC by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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The second 1000 Rabbits release, Rubik’s Cube: first play on BBC6 Music just before 6pm this evening. [Edit: now with the video]https://youtu.be/xThF4TCGkbE
(DIR) Post #B5UFaXRfShqXc53cFE by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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The first movement of Bach’s Cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140) on the radio. Makes my brain go slightly wobbly with excitement, everything going on in this movement.I could write a long essay about all the excitement, but I’ll confine myself to the observation that the slow chorale melody in the sopranos has its time moving at a slower pace than the music around it, and that music is organised into several layers which themselves have different paces. Not all performances evince this layering effect. If you (a treble singer) are strongly counting your long notes in groups of three beats *at the speed of the other layers*, you have lost this feeling of slowness, and I can hear it. You need to do it with a slow metabolic rate (or something) so it sounds like notes in a slow speed rather than long notes in a fast speed. Go give it a listen. Here’s one at a good speed (better than some at the above thing).https://youtu.be/RfAzF-CGQAM #Bach #classicalmusic
(DIR) Post #B6L45TaqvpicZWDQK8 by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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Ah, it's time for #GoodNightListening Tonight, I have been listening to Richard Strauss's Oboe Concerto, the history of which I have written about here, a while back. It is one of the last pieces he wrote, and it is looking backwards in almost every imaginable way, but that is not a criticism. It's a small but very good piece, and the slow movement in particular I find very moving, achingly beautiful.The link is to a performance (slow movement only) by Heinz Holliger; as the three movements are linked without breaks, it might make sense to stop at about the 8 minute mark, before the cadenza and transition to the last movement.https://youtu.be/M00dn1fXPgY
(DIR) Post #B6MXCMdeHQ5QrE7UQq by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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RE: https://cupoftea.social/@Gaolaitch/115521602903182979Well then. (See below) I appear to have bought a clavichord today. At auction, in my absence (commission bid).I paid less than a third of the market value for instruments by the maker, so that’s good. Picking it up on Monday, so no pictures as yet.RT: https://cupoftea.social/users/Gaolaitch/statuses/115521602903182979
(DIR) Post #B6OuYiwCjrz3eNLksi by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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#GoodNightListening Handel came up in my thinking and I needed to listen to (at least one of) his nine German Arias. They are, every one of them, delightful. Over the years I’ve played them many times. But this means I have Opinions so finding a performance to link that doesn’t annoy me is hard. This one comes close. Marie Friederike Schöder and Batzdorfer Hofkapelle. They properly ornament on the da capo, so that’s great even if I don’t like all their choices. This is the sixth one: Meine Seele hört im Sehen. https://youtu.be/PUIAE1vBgig#baroquemusic
(DIR) Post #B6OuYjacJcJHfiG1s8 by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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The third 1000 Rabbits single, and my favourite so far, I think. https://youtu.be/gsOiY-CT6sY
(DIR) Post #B6OuYjvt2XK8jgD11c by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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Oh also, Liv told me they were at The Great Escape in Brighton earlier this week and did a BBC Radio 6 live gig for Huw Stephens, so you can listen back to that on BBC Sounds if you like (they start about 1h40m in to his show: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002vyy1
(DIR) Post #B7W1EqQtNquxBjqGkC by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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I was annoying the neighbours with cello sound and the odd swear word, and finally decided to grasp the nettle and email the couple who booked me eighteen months ago to play the Bach D major Suite at their wedding. It is in July, and we haven’t been in touch with one another since August last year. We’ll see if the thing is actually on.Admin self-sabotager, me. I’ve taken no deposit, signed no contract (though there is an email trail, so that’s something). I should have confirmed it all in February. If it doesn’t happen, I’ll be cross only because I’ve turned down other work on that day. But it would clear space in the next three weeks that I won’t need to do more annoying the neighbours and swearing.
(DIR) Post #B7W1EqhYNuFG1PdZiK by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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They got married in February without bothering to unbook me for July, or tell me or anything. So that'll learn me something or other.
(DIR) Post #B7W1ErAcdpUtTZEn1U by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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This is still bothering me this morning. I haven’t responded to the email yet, because I can’t think of anything civil to say; I might leave it for a while. There was no meaningful apology, but they want to thank me, ‘one way or another’, presumably to assuage their consciences. I don’t think I want to help them with that, but maybe that’s just me being petty.
(DIR) Post #B7gTjx0CPrjkO3wHUO by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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Today is one of those days. I awoke having been bitten on the thigh by someone or something in bed with me. (Sadly, it was a bug or bugs unknown.)Evidence of the (many facets of our present) polycrisis is everywhere in my timeline this morning, and has put my mood on edge. My rehearsal has been cancelled, which is both good (less driving today) and bad (concerts are nearing). And I am unsure what to wear to the concert I’m going to tonight (this is more a heat/comfort worry than a fashion crisis).As I now have the day to devote to editing, I need to find a cool café that won’t mind me taking up a table for hours in exchange for a cup of tea and a piece of cake. (Or a place I can dangle my feet in the river with my laptop carefully on my knees.)#GoodMorning
(DIR) Post #B81zZDdQHLWdtsdMq8 by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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@bytebro @keefeglise Yes that’s right. In the Romantic era (big orchestras, complex music) composers would typically write for two harps so they could share out the notes in a way that made them possible (each using different pedal settings).
(DIR) Post #B81zZIh9SuTlatPuqW by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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@bytebro @keefeglise Very quick explanation based on what I think is meant by that description:A chromatic harp has a separate string for each possible note on a piano (12 notes per octave). A normal pedal harp has 7 strings per octave, and the pedals allow each string to be changed in pitch up and down one semitone (= to the neighbouring keys either side on a piano). This means there is some overlap of pitches.This pedalling system restricts a little bit what notes the harp can play all at once, and means the player must use both feet constantly to change the pitches of strings as required by the music. All that goes away on the chromatic harp. No feet required.
(DIR) Post #B81zZIuGg8yGFZYOI4 by Gaolaitch@cupoftea.social
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@bytebro @keefeglise Oops forgot my bona fides: I am a professional music editor, have edited a fair amount of harp music.