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You don't care? Well, neither do I!
I've come to a particular decision lately that's been a while coming, really ( Read more... ) -
Copyright, capitalism and culture. [I said I'd left you, yet here I am]
Hey-ho, everyone, I’ve returned to the fold, as it were ( Read more... ) -
Au revoir, c'était intéressant...
After 4-and-a-bit years and 112 entries, I've decided that I'm not going to post on LiveJournal any more. The idea behind joining it in the first place was to have a place to vent my frustrations and my joys, to announce details of my musical plans and exploits, and to have relaxed, friendly discussions about things (I think I said that to someone ( Read more... ) -
One Thousand Million ≠ One Billion
America and American usage is a bundle of stupidities, to paraphrase Anne Frank. Like the number '1,000,000,000', for example. In the early twentieth century, every country but America considered that number to be either 'a thousand million' or the then slightly archaic 'a milliard'. The idea was that a billion was a million squared, a trillion ( Read more... ) -
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Right-o. More music-related bloggage. I met Keith Pascoe (the guy who conducted my realisation of Mozart's Requiem last month) the other day, and the orchestra want more music from me!! So, I'm getting right to work at a project that's been bubbling away under the surface for the last few weeks, namely a Symphony, possibly in a minor. I sketched ( Read more... ) -
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in d minor
Right-o, une nouvelle composition.
I started this one in May, but I wrote very little of it; I simply lost inspiration, for some reason. I took it up again about a week ago, and finished the whole thing. It's a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, which is a type of Sacred Choral thing. I'm quite happy with how it turned out, actually, it's one of my ( Read more... ) -
Ze first installment
Right, here beginneth my initiative to blog all of the music I write.
Here, for thine own pleasure, or disdain, is a minuet in sort of parody of the style of Haydn (I love Haydn, i's not a mocking parody) which I wrote for Bucket\Inanimacy Appreciation Week at FCMidi. The minuet is on the tune of There's A Hole In My Bucket and its trio is on the ( Read more... ) -
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I stole this meme from Mike's blog, actually. You bold-text the books you've read entirely and italicise the books you started to read, but never finished.
( Boring Book Meme )