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I think the best way to be objective is by taking a relativistic approach (not subjectivist, though). By affirming not only our natural ear but also our socialized ear through our cultural background (usually multicultural to some extent now), we ...
And yet, either because of or in spite of the scholarly application of math, your music is vital, alive, enjoyable and very well crafted.
Ann,
Strauss (jr) and Brahms were friends. The esteem in which Brahms held Strauss is illustrated by the following: Strauss went to visit Brahms and took his young daughter with him. She brought her autograph book to get the great man's signature...
Liszt.
Unless he really worked at it, (as in Les Preludes) it seems to me his very good themes went undeveloped and usually with disappointing results. Like purchasing a wonderful cut of meat and then preparing it badly, or buying very good vodka...
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Choir, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Big Ensemble, Songs
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Post minimalist
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not at all.
- Where do you live?
- Graegle CA
- About Me:
- I am an old geezer. I can remember all the way back to the '60's and before. It was terrible when the North and the South started shooting at each other like that. I am not a musician, nor do I play one on TV. I just like hanging out with them. You may think that strange, but I don't play golf either and yet I like living in golfing communities.
In my checkered past I've managed to meet both Stravinsky and Hindemith. And a few others. Of all the musicians I've met, I am convinced that only two could actually look at a score and "hear" it. One was Hindemith, the other was Fritz Reiner. Stravinsky said he couldn't do it, he was sure he was just "remembering" the music prompted by the sight of the notes on the page.
Now, don't get me wrong, I was all set to have a huge career in music, but then at the last minute I remembered that I have no talent and no ambition, a fact to which my compositions abundantly testify. The knowledge of my preordained failure in this art has, I am sure, saved me from considerable misery.But its a big world and I managed to get into the pharmaceutical business creating all sorts of dangerous and useless but highly profitable drugs.Pharmaceutical science suited me well, it is a field in which absence of talent and ambition, slovenly work habits and a general disregard for logical thinking are considered assets, much like holding high public office, I suppose.
Gentle reader, you will find this hard to believe, but I am so old that I recall sitting around a campfire roasting marshmallows and discussing the chaos into which chant had fallen, with no less than my old pal Pope Greg VI. Pope Greg was an excellent tennis player, by the way. If the universe would have looped around a little differently it would have been fun to see him take on Arnold Schoenberg. Well anyway, someone suggested the Greg codify all those chants to make them more recognizable, which, during the off-season, he did. They caught on like wildfire. Soon I noticed that I couldn't go anywhere without hearing them. Baptisms, weddings funerals, lynchings were all accompanied by that wonderful Greco-Roman palaver.
My next encounter took place a few years later. The then Pope, I think it was Julius, had assigned Monteverdi to guard Palestrina. This made sense. Palestrina was a good 3 point man shooting from the corners, but Monteverdi was taller and had an uncanny way of blocking shots without drawing a foul. Nonetheless, Palestrina still scored more than one would have imagined, him being only a little taller than Kernis. Then one day Monteverdi showed up on the court with an invention, a strange looking shoe. Yes, he had invented the tennis shoe, and it made a big impression. You could hear him running up and down the court, Screech -Slap, Screech-Slap, Screech-Slap.. he had only invented ONE shoe. Two part inventions didn't come along until Bach's time.
I dozed off and missed a lot but managed to revive myself so as to spend some time with a student of Mozart, namely Hummel. I am amazed to this day how he managed to turn out so much fine music and still have time for the figurines.
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Life as it Is
May I recommend that you spend 7 minutes listening to "life as its" by composer Sherif Abraham. Creatively first rate. Very inventive and exciting with just enough contrast to make the composition, though short, satisfying and complete within itself. The orchestration is deft and the handling of instruments appears more than competent.
If I were to characterize this work, it sounded to my ear like a cross between John Wiliams and John Adams both at the very top of their game, and yet not at all… Continue
If I were to characterize this work, it sounded to my ear like a cross between John Wiliams and John Adams both at the very top of their game, and yet not at all… Continue
Posted on September 6, 2009 at 9:19pm — 7 Comments
American Songs
Richard Schletty, a first rate musician and all round nice guy, was kind enough to make an MP3 of my American Songs and load it onto my home page.
Orchestra: 2222/2200.Timpani Strings. Duration 12 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it.
For some really good music please visit Richard Schletty's home page.
Thanks
Orchestra: 2222/2200.Timpani Strings. Duration 12 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it.
For some really good music please visit Richard Schletty's home page.
Thanks
Posted on August 25, 2009 at 7:31pm —
Mozart and Dissonance
Mozart and Dissonance.
A frequent contributor to various of the Composer’s Forum blogs groups etc., recently made a remark, supposedly in defense of “modern music,” that Mozart composed A Musical Joke K 552 as a test bed for modernity. Since the piece was not well received, we are told, Mozart abandoned it. Apparently the author wished to make the point that she like Mozart has to put up with audiences who don’t “understand” the new musical language.
To set the matter straight, Mozart’s forays… Continue
A frequent contributor to various of the Composer’s Forum blogs groups etc., recently made a remark, supposedly in defense of “modern music,” that Mozart composed A Musical Joke K 552 as a test bed for modernity. Since the piece was not well received, we are told, Mozart abandoned it. Apparently the author wished to make the point that she like Mozart has to put up with audiences who don’t “understand” the new musical language.
To set the matter straight, Mozart’s forays… Continue
Posted on August 16, 2009 at 11:32pm — 6 Comments
a bit more on music critics and "new" music
New Music ..About music critics and criticism .
We all remember stories of the negative comments when the official critical community encountered Beethoven 5 and 6 (and 3 and 1) and a host of other music we now regard as masterpieces and that got panned on first performance. So I suppose we take as gospel that critics get it wrong every time, when in fact most of the time critics get it right, or more right than the rest of the audience. The must or they wouldn’t keep their jobs.
Most of the ti… Continue
We all remember stories of the negative comments when the official critical community encountered Beethoven 5 and 6 (and 3 and 1) and a host of other music we now regard as masterpieces and that got panned on first performance. So I suppose we take as gospel that critics get it wrong every time, when in fact most of the time critics get it right, or more right than the rest of the audience. The must or they wouldn’t keep their jobs.
Most of the ti… Continue
Posted on August 11, 2009 at 6:38pm — 6 Comments
Comment Wall (166 comments)
- At 3:52am on November 26, 2009,
Kento said… - Still enjoying long posts you have posted on here - hope there is a way we can get in touch sometime to talk about these things further!
- At 6:25pm on November 25, 2009,
Raw Sugar said…
- Thank you so much. That means a lot coming from you. I love your compositions! Muah
- At 1:26pm on November 18, 2009,
Stephen Main said… - Thanks Fredrick! I'm just geting to know my way around this forum..... hey, nice work on the Serenade for Violin, by the way!
Steve
- At 9:29pm on November 17, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said… - Fredrick, Thanks for listening. I'll put down my thoughts on the linkage between the "math" (Fibonacci numbers specifically) and retrogradibility / invertibility in a blog soon, maybe tomorrow.
- At 5:22pm on November 16, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- OK Fredrick, I've overcome the little problem with Scorch viewer, or rather, circumvented it altogether. I just printed screen shots of D minor fugue and assembled a patchwork score. It's apparent that you did not construct this work on a keyboard, unless you were playing barefoot. It's my opinion that one should not try to span a keyboard interval wider than his shoe size with confidence, which limits me to a tenth, and thus the Fugue in D minor, to two takes and a mix. I'm already working on it.
Speaking of intervals, please listen to Fantasy XIII. The subject is a mapping of the Fibonacci sequence on the diatonic scale, and the countersubjects are the retrograde and melodic inversion of that subject, hence 'Fibonacci's Mirror'.
I'll let you know when I'm done with D minor fugue.
- At 10:03pm on November 9, 2009,
Geoff Mann said… - Coming. Sorry. Just got interrupted while registering. Hopefully have something up tonight.
- At 1:27pm on November 1, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- Sorry Fredrick, I didn't mean to imply I mean to improve/ alter it in any way, just to cover it.
I actually don't have Sibelius' software, except the free "scorch" viewer downloaded from their site. I tried to print F in D minor, but it only prints the first page, and superimposes "sibeliusmusic.com" diagonally and repeatedly across the whole page. Do you have a PDF or other image file of the score you can send along to me?
- At 12:43pm on November 1, 2009,
Dan and Deryn Cullen said… - Done!
- At 1:40am on November 1, 2009,
Kristofer Emerig said…
- Hey Fredrick,
I'm grateful, even embarrassed by your endorsement, truly. In light of the work you've presented to me, your comments are witness more to your benevolence than any skill on my part. Nonetheless, per our agreement, the check is in the mail in said, agreed upon, amount.
OK, I know this is not the "cover other's material" forum, but please, time permitting, if you are not already over-familiar with the work, take a few minutes to listen to Bull's "In Nomine" on my page. I'm not soliciting feedback - I really just want to share this work (not mine) with others (and in particular, you) by whom it might otherwise go unnoticed and unappreciated. It's a very formative work for me and I feel your supple, straightforward intellect can appreciate the unpretentious beauty and brilliance that lies therein.
Speaking of covering others' material, I'd like to discuss attacking your Fugue in D minor [for string trio], with your permission. I'd of course present my production first to your scrutiny. Let me know if this is acceptable. Alright Fredrick, I'm littering your page, so bye for now. Please give thoughts on my proceeding with fugue in D minor.
- At 5:00pm on October 29, 2009,
Mark Gosney said… - Hey Fredrick, I have to say after listening to your tunes now a couple of times, I really enjoy "Serenade for Violin" and "Melody 3". I'm a big fan of Ennio Marricone and these two tunes remind me of his work on Cinema Paradiso especially in the sense that he tends to use a lot of Piano and solo Violin in his compositions on this sound track. Very well done and inspiring. I look forward to hearing more. Please hail me when you post some new stuff.
Mark
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