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It never gets old
You know the world has taken a turn for the surreal when the top Yahoo! news headline reads:
"Captain freed, pirates slain"
Yar. Welcome to the high-seas adventures of the 17th century. -
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Going to the UK
I just found out that the paper I wrote with my research partner has been accepted for presentation at an international music analysis conference at Cardiff University in Wales.
Looks like I need to get a passport.
The conference is September 4-7. Yes, that is at the same time as BBC proms. -
(016)? (012478)? Don't fucking care.
In other news, I've pretty much declared war on set class analysis. -
Amazing
Ursula Mamlok.
Check her out.
You'll be glad you did. -
Pissed
This pretty much makes me want to stab someone:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_re_us/paid_to_study -
Atonal theory magic trick of the day
Something I figured out today:
Attention all composers! If you have an AIT (0146 or 0137 - doesn't matter) and you want to move to a different AIT with a minimal amount of motion, keep the tritone (ic6) invariant and transpose just one of the two remaining pitches by a tritone. Presto chango! By moving only a single tone, your old 0146 is now an ( Read more... ) -
Today's Game
Super fun twelve-tone puzzle
1) Assign order numbers to a twelve-tone row, such that 0 refers to the first tone, 1 refers to the second, … e refers to the last note of the row.
So, <0,1,2,3,4,5> refers to the row’s first hexachord (whatever the pitch classes happen to be) in its original order and