Ottevanger's Omphaloskeptic Outpost

[lukeottevanger]

Lucky guess.

[Maciek]

So, you're ignoring my challenge, eh? I thought you wouldn't have the guts for a manly fight...! [where's the "sneer" smiley...?] 

[lukeottevanger]

[Once again, Maciek, can I say how much I appreciate your work on behalf of my flame war]

OK, refreshing the esnips screen doesn't work. If I go back from the beginning I see that two of you suckers have indeed downloaded it. Though obviously not Maciek, who's obviously bluffing.

[lukeottevanger]

Those notes, G and D, by the way, are a constant motive throughout the first and third movements. But I've only just realised that they must be an involuntary hommage to Saul.

[Maciek]

Didn't you know MrOsa was my new screen name?

Cheers,
Saul

[Maciek]

Sorry, that shoul have went:

Didt you knew MOsa was my knew scren name?

Saul

[lukeottevanger]

Well, I did wonder. After all, there can't be two people with such an appalling intellectual hold on reality, can there?

[lukeottevanger]

That's better. Used the Saul Check button that time, I see.

[Guido]

Those notes, G and D, by the way, are a constant motive throughout the first and third movements. But I've only just realised that they must be an involuntary hommage to Saul.

lol!

Didn't you know MrOsa was my new screen name? 

Cheers,
Saul

LOL!

I have listened and read simulatneously an I see your concerns as you outlined them, but as a first idea of what it might sound like - I like it alot! I don't know if I would be able to deal with those sorts of rhythms if I were playing it, but I remember you saying that they were often easier than they looked...

[lukeottevanger]

Thanks! The rhythms are only an issue in the opening music (and on its return) and, as you say, they are easier than they look. Nothing worse than a triplet in there, of course; it's only the layerings of the parts which makes it more complex. The idea is that the parts are loosely connected, heterophonically, if you like, but they go their own way - play them cooly and relaxed-ly and they almost play themselves. It's the kind of writing I've used quite a lot in various piano/clavichord pieces over the last couple of years, as you know. One of those things I feel very comfortable and natural writing, which I therefore allow out quite frequently!

[Guido]

Also Rózia is so sweet its almost like a parody of cuteness! This is my anti -flaming post.

[Maciek]

Awwwwww...

[lukeottevanger]

Oh, if we're going to have a love-in now, may I mention my daughter too, who, though she doesn't know it, is now 22 minutes into her 6th birthday? Another round of Awwwwwws please.

[Maciek]

Awwwwww...

Happy birthday! Give her my best wishes tomorrow! (From the Polish guy who calls her a genius )


Maciek

[lukeottevanger]

Will do!

(She likes my new piece, btw, though she asked why it was called a Canticle Sonata if no one was singing in it. Which is a fair point....)

[Maciek]

See? She is a genius.

[lukeottevanger]

You don't have to convince me!

[Maciek]

 

[lukeottevanger]

One Holst forgot, it seems: Guido: The Bringer of Love

[Maciek]

Yes, where has all the jolly flaming spirit suddenly gone?