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Monday, March 19, 2007

Break the slump

Since I've been banging my head against the 3rd movement of the Concertino for quite some time now (Blocks are not fun, people. Not. Fun.) I've been getting a lot of advice on how to proceed. One of the better ones was to relax, step back from the stress of the long-gone deadline, and write something else. Something small, something with a double-bar in a manner of days. Just to get writing again. It was an excellent suggestion, and nothing else was working, so a couple of weeks ago I wrote this.

And it worked. It's cute, it's short, and I like it quite a bit. And forcing me to think about some other music for a change seems to have done the trick, as the 3rd movement is chugging along now, and is shaping up well. The title you see, Dohyci, is a bit of a puzzle I know (as is the piece itself, which strikes me as a musical koan of sorts), but I'll be sure to make that clear not long from now, when/if a premiere is in the cards.

And yes, if you squint, you will find that time signature is indeed 11/8 + 3/4. Well how else is one supposed to do 3+3+3+2 / 2+2+2? And no, it can't be 3+3+3 / 2+2+2+2. That's very different.

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