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"Well yes, music is music and this that you produce sounds very good! And also, who could play the guitar as well as you do!"

"Dan, I like that you have been interested in the theory that I worked on and presented in this chat. I think it's very good that you have delved into the subject and that you have used it in your new project. The Tonnetz and PRL…"

"Tony, I deeply appreciate your sincere and enthusiastic comments, which for me have been very pleasing and supportive. I am glad that you have enjoyed listening to my piece, enough to listen to it three times! I really thank you !! I have listened…"

"Ramon, hi, All I can tell you is the theoretical basis which you were applying in this work helped enormously today as, having some free time, I started on a Gavotte. This system allows me easy, instant modulation to mediant and submediant. Great!"

"A world of difference between this and my work in both musical understanding and theory - and a truly wonderful, educational listen - technically superb and alive - controlled dynamics well placed and apt. I could not even begin to write something…"

"LIz, Thank you for listening to the piece and for your positive comments. I find the reference you did to that important work for organ by Carl Nielsen very interesting, since he made a demonstration of how to develop new musical elements in…"

"Very interesting piece! One of the exercises we were given way back in composition class was to try to write something musical that totally avoids traditional tonal harmony. I thought the most interesting approach would be to try to use triads in a…"

"Ingo, I am glad that you have enjoyed listening to this music and I appreciate your comments. I agree with you that the most important thing is the musical result obtained and not the theoretical approach on which the composition process is based.…"

"Timothy, You thank me for sharing this work, but it is I who have to thank you for listening to it and also commenting on it. In response to Dan I have tried to make a brief summary of what my intentions have been. Saludos"

"Dan, Thank you very much for listening to my piece and for reflecting on it. My intention has been to build an atonal harmony with a chromatic format but with a clearly consonant combination. I have tried to achieve all this by using the simplest…"

"I enjoyed listening to this Ramon.  I appreciate that you have based this on an interesting theory and at some point I would like to look into this and other such approaches to composition but I'm honestly more interested in the result…"

"I agree with Dane this would make a very nice thing to slide into a composition as a surprise. I admit to not really knowing much about this specific theory so this has been very educational for me as well!  Thanks for sharing!"

"Interesting to read the explanations. I seem to have been caught in tha unwittingly using the system for quick surprise modulations. C-E-G----E-G#-B and similar. An interesting concept though I listened to your work without too much attention to its…"

"Hello Dane, I have no doubt: I prefer the second version (Peggy's Boy 271114-224) to the first. Apart from the fact that there are some musical "refinements" (Joost Visser goes into analytical detail on them) the sound is better. I…"

"Hi Jan, Yes, the heterogeneity of the parts of the piece has been one of my objectives, however what matters is that these parts fit together well (I hope that is so...) It is also true that the ending is a bit surprising. However there are two…"