ANN: New Harrington - Tetra-Mnemosyne VII for String Trio
Jeff Harrington
my best pieces ever. Even though I'd claimed that #6 was the last
one in the series, after buying Sibelius and porting my expert system
to Java the new piece just started coming. There's a new massiveness
to the piece that I'd like to exploit in coming pieces... :)
BLURB:
The seventh string trio in the series. Driving and intense, this one
features simpler more emotional material with an Arabic bent.
Tetra-Mnemosyne VII ends with one of my most exciting climaxes
to date. The slow sections abound with a halting gesture inspired by
middle period Beethoven string quartets.
LoFi Stream: http://www.parnasse.com/tetra-mnemosyne_vii.mp3LoFi.m3u
HiFi Listen: http://www.parnasse.com/tetra-mnemosyne_vii.mp3HiFi.m3u
The Score should be available sometime early next week as an Acrobat PDF
file.
Enjoy!
jeff harrington
http://www.parnasse.com/jeff.htm
ba...@visi.com
wrote:
COol I want to see the PDF file of one page^_^
Jeff Harrington
There are also over 20+ other chamber, piano and orchestral scores in this
format free for perusal.
http://www.parnasse.com/jeff.htm
jeff
http://www.parnasse.com/jeff.htm
orangie
classical piece. However, I don't understand the many opening screetch-
notes devolving so quickly to a bass reflection. In typical Glass style,
these would have continued on long enough to establish rhythm and
repitition as the composition mode. In the Beethoven style, the opening
would probably have been 4 notes and Then devolved into a bass-
reflection. What Tetra sounds like is an unhappy merging of Adams and
Glass, and the gimmick is too obvious to be considered an element of
original style. I think that what you ought to do is relisten to Jarl's
work to hear how far astray you can go by relying on personality, and on
other composer's templates. For my string quintet, during which I
constantly had the "Rasumovsky" in my mind -- pressuring me to Make A
Classical Piece, I had to make 16 complete revisions before I had
something which sounded like my own style. "Tetra" just sounds a little
too glib.
mike
Jeff Harrington
snicker...
jeff
orangie
Jeff, I really don't think that your Julliard trade-school education is
going to cover this. I've been writing music for 40 years, and I
certainly know what music should sound like. Yours sounds like forced and
incomplete music in this case. You can bully around your little high-
school clique mentality towards my word writing style, but your music
really has to stand apart from your attitude towards it or me. The
quality of your music writing skill is very evident when contrasted with
Matt's -- someone who went through a very similar educational experience
as yours. To say that this is one of your best pieces might be very
honest -- if so, it is the most honest thing you've said about your
music.
If you are posting notice of your music to the NG, then you will get
responses. What you're doing by your ill-considered response to my post
is blocking what might also be said about the good in your music. If you
want to be a composer, you have to learn to compose. You either don't
have the talent, or else you haven't learnt distance.
mike
Jeff Harrington
attention to my music and I welcome your sincerity. Instead of snickering I
should have been more honest and posted that I found your comments... let's be
kind... uh... god-awful pretentious and laughable. Best of luck in all your
musical endeavors and this will be my last comment towards you on this matter.
Feel free, as I'm sure you will, in enjoying the last word.
jeff
http://www.parnasse.com/jeff.htm
orangie
>
> Mike, I'm sorry to have gotten off on the wrong foot with you. I appreciate your
> attention to my music and I welcome your sincerity. Instead of snickering I
> should have been more honest and posted that I found your comments... let's be
> kind... uh... god-awful pretentious and laughable. Best of luck in all your
> musical endeavors and this will be my last comment towards you on this matter.
> Feel free, as I'm sure you will, in enjoying the last word.
I don't really like "last word", because it implies a little game played
by little boys. Little boy games are usually one-move games. I wonder why
this person wasn't able to understand talking about music as though it
were a real thing? an artform? Why, then, would he crosspost his
announcements to all these fuzzy-art groups? Is it because he's learnt a
kind of music engineer mentality? One which allows simple representation?
How does he think of music? As something that we hear or as something
written? Should there be a difference? For a composer's music, I would
want to hear continuity between notes and a meaningful combination of
notes. Is it that he feels that any work he puts into the piece shows
that he intends meaning? Since Stockhausen, we've all known how to write
in the modernist piano genre. But the writing of string quartet takes a
different kind of concentration, don't you think? It's obviously not
enough just to surprise the audience anymore -- Xenakis and Varese showed
how empty that kind of gesture can be for a structured music. But, what
is a structured music to a person like Mr. Hurryton? A romantic
connection between literature and a cool title? (But, we're all guilty of
this, and Mr. H'otiston has shown me, at least, the error in giving a
classical sounding name to urban musak -- Is there an elevator in the
house?)
But, modern-ers don't like to talk about music as an "artform" (well,
they haven't much to talk about anyway, except parking and stuff) --
their trade-school education hasn't allowed them them kind of education
which would suggest that there is no such thing as direct expression of
music. Having been taught to blow and touch correctly, perhaps they feel
that performance practice can be translated into composition method? That
is not an obvious translation. In the 19th century, the wonderkinds like
him bastardized the word "art" into high-culture. Proust radically showed
how mistaken that notion can be. "Art" is really the same concept as
"create", and art is the product of people who create -- There is no
music in Nature, unless you have talent enough to hear it. But, not many
trade-school graduates read Proust. And supposing P. was wrong, and Mr.
Hushyton is right? That music is whatever it's taught to be? Then, who is
the audience for his work? Other taught-o-logical composers? Would they
care for each other? Would he bother to listen to his own music if the
notes hadn't been stroked by his own, or a friend's, pen? Can we see his
inability to respond as a sign of creative fatigue? Or is it an emptyness
of principle?
But let's not forget: we're talking about his music, and you have to go
hear it yourself to form an opinion. I may be totally wrong about it. In
fact, I hope I am. Life would be so much simpler for me if music is just
a way to get invited to cocktail parties.
http://www.parnasse.com/jeff.htm
mike
Matthew B. Tepper
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mt
> constantly had the "Rasumovsky" in my mind
You virtual composers sure are modest... but you're drinking the wrong
sort of wine. Now, when I taste wine, I constantly have Beethoven in
mind...
mrt
orangie
music on your own, but you do seem to be able to drink wine. I don't like
to drink; I find that alchohol blurs the ability to hear music in my
mind. And, from when I was a kid, I had found booze and drugs make me
feel that it is they that is creating the music. I wouldn't like to only
approach music as a consumer, but I understand that you might not have
any other choice.
By "constantly having the Rasumovsky in my mind" I meant, not that I was
recreating, or "being" Beethoven, but that that kind of texture was a
standard against which I had to write; that my writing had to be as
simple and as various as his writing. I'm not really sure what your post
means, but I suppose it to be something about "self-consciousness" -- but
self-consciousness misunderstood as "conceit".
mike
Top Catt
says...
> I don't like to drink; I find that alchohol blurs the ability to hear music in my
> mind.
And with your "mind," that would leave you doubly handicapped--so
whatever became of "This is my last post to this group?" Promises,
promises...
T.C.
orangie
top_c...@hotmail.com says...
tat. The high level of discourse that you maintain in rec.music.classic
is way beyond my skills. I don't know anything about sports, so I'd no
choice but to leave all soul for one mind.
mike
Myron Stackpool
>It's an automatic cross post response to Herrington's spam,
Sorry Jeff Harrington's [no relation to John] announcement is *not* spam; his
Tetra-Mnemosyne pieces kicks ass [thanks Jeff!]; and back when he was a regular,
his posts were a lot more interesting and astute than your "creative" writing
"experiments." Now run along before I put you in my juicer.
Usenet TROLLS who have had their ass kicked:
John E Harrington AKA "jbayer34" 4/2/01
Top Catt
says...
> I don't know anything about sports, so I'd no
> choice but to leave all soul for one mind.
>
> mike
And I don't know anything about writing such completely nonsensical,
meaningless "English prose" as that example. Of course you don't need
liquor or drugs, Orange Pulpie--you're high on brain damage.
T.C.
orangie
Myron_...@newsranger.com says...
public conversation with you in a newsgroup like this. Certainly you have
very little writing skill, but if you'd like to explore the concept of
music with me, why not move over to rec.compose? Or, you can e-mail me
directly.
mike
orangie
top_c...@hotmail.com says...
level, why not move it to rec.compose? This gourmet music group isn't
really the place to talk about the way music is put together. The crowd
always get's sick when we start using the circular saw. Or, why not just
e-mail me direct?
mike
John Harrington
orang...@aol.com wrote on 4/3/01 1:50 AM:
Remember when he said he'd never darken our doorway again? But here he is
again, raised from the dead, with 50 posts in one day.
J
John Harrington
Myron_...@newsranger.com wrote on 4/2/01 9:21 PM:
<snip>
> Usenet TROLLS who have had their ass kicked:
> John E Harrington AKA "jbayer34" 4/2/01
Deluded limey gits who have been throroughly SPANKED in ingominy on usenet,
and who stand there bleeding and claiming they "always triumph":
Myron Stackpool AKA "Myron member" 4/3/01
And just guess what "member" means....
J
P.S.: No, seriously, dude, your arm's off. Look.