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little by little
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unhinged
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we just drifted apart
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unhinged, i hope that someday you meet a gorgeous double-bassist and you both live tutti, vivace e brio. i hope that you find a love so stirring that it sends your heartbeat into 15/8, and you like it.
in the meantime, however, don't forget about tchaivosky's unnumbered symphony; at least, when i am uber-forlorn, it is of some comfort.
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shostakovich 5 is more my style these days; he said he modelled it after tchaikovsky or the drama of it anyway.
tchaik 5 is my favorite though
we dated for about a month. he still wants to hang out and be 'friends.' i don't want another 'friend.' blah
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the second movement of shostakovich 5 is one of my favorites. shostakovich "scherzo movements" (or whatever one might call them) are a universe unto themselves, would you not agree, unhinged?
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poco a poco i recover from many months spent somberoso
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hey dru; sorry i haven't replied but i don't have internet access where i'm living. coming home always has it's advantages ;-)
i'm not much of a scherzo person myself. but now that i think about it you are right about shostakovich's scherzi. the third movement of string quartet number 8 makes me laugh everytime. he appeals more to my dry dark sense of humor than the late classical and romantic composers did. haydn is the only other composer whose musical jokes can make me laugh. he was somewhat of an antiestablishment kinda guy, the greatgreatgreatgreatgrandfather of punk.
i miss talking to people who aren't paid to care about music.
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unhinged, i'm not surprised that you've felt a little burned out (i read in one of your other recent blathes). when i was a fledgling composer the one thing that inspired more musical self-hate in me than anything else was my interaction with music schools (in my case, esp. the composition departments). my impression was that it was really a big popularity contest; sonic beauty seemed to take a back seat to physical and social beauty. in fact, it seemed as if sonic beauty was to be disregarded entirely.
nowadays i'm not about to pretend i give a shat about reckless atonality simply to impress the children playing in the avant garden ...
you are quite possibly an excellent violinist, who is only "mediocre" when compared against some technically perfect but passionless virtuoso. use the schools to learn, but stop listening if they make you burn. that's my cumbersome little maxim for the day.
what i'm trying to say is, don't hate yourself because of some snooty assholes at the academy. they are playing a social game that probably has little to do with music. poco_a_poco they themselves are internally moriendo, and they love to spread it around.
there is a big, beautiful musical goddess who loves - erotically - everything you do. poco_a_poco she'll bring you to climax. i can't believe i just typed that. i can't believe i'm about to click blathe. oh no. someone stop me befo-
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This is one of the more interesting dialogs I've encountered in this_indigo_party.
Sonic beauty is so much more wonderous than visual beauty.
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yeah, music school is a joke. getting graded for something as subjective as music....blah. composition is probably the worst of all. the composers at my last school were obsessed with doing something 'new' to the point that it didn't matter what it sounded like as long as no one had ever done it before. i guess i don't hate music, but people that make music for the wrong reasons. i've never made music because i was good at it or to impress people. more appropriately, i need a break from the scene. i miss the days when music was fun. little by little, i'm gonna get back to that.
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play the music that you like and love. you already know to do that, but we all have been buried underneath the avalanche of idiotic "superior tastes" once or twice.
i write music that i want to listen to; if i don't like listening to it, why would i write it? to prove something? what? people who write music they wouldn't want to listen to are probably operating on alterior, non-musical motives. music is merely their means to an end. i'm not prone to vengeance but there is a side of me that wants to see such `composers` get stuck in a room for a month, with their "sonata in e-flat for screaming child and corrugated iron fence" repeating endlessly. i doubt they'd be writing any more of that!
(p.s. see how easy it is to think up novel forms. the challenge is making them satisfying. per the question, "why does music have to be beautiful, harmonious, or satisfying?" i respond, "why does food have to taste good?" if someone wants to go around eating raw manure, that's their business, but don't deride me for not taking part. and i don't think it makes me "unenlightened" to hope that the future of cuisine excludes manure)
in my observations, few things increase airs of pretension as does a feigned appreciation for something one actually dislikes; similarly, nothing improves people's skill at stuff quite as quickly as their practicing with materials they like.
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i totally agree with you. i got into a fight with a composer in my theory class about the accessibility to the performer and the audience of their so-called 'new' music and she said that i was stupid basically for demanding that composers write music that people want to play and hear instead of crap that satisfies their own intellect. i blame it on john_cage ; ever since he wrote that essay 'who cares if they listen' or whatever the hell it was called, composers in music schools everywhere have been using the excuse of their supposed intellectual superiority for writing horrible music. i steer clear of most student composers. especially the snooty ones with their ill-founded superiority complexes. i just have to find the courage and fortitude to make my own path and stick to it.
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unhinged
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my blues ep
coming soon to a myspace near you
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unhinged
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i made a child laugh today while she showed me what she could do on the violin
i inspired a long_time student of mine to practice today cause he's always up for a challenge (even though he's only nine)
i'm glad i didn't let music school beat it out of me; i like making kids smile
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i miss making kids smile
but i'm going to the library tomorrow before work to use their keyboard to practice radiohead
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i make kids smile with music again. i am happy when i do that. if only that was a stable way to make a living...
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