A new song added

I have added a new song, 'Come Away, Death', to the Songs score page on my web site (www.hand2ear.org). I have also put up PDF versions of the songs for people who have trouble with the Sibelius Scorch plugin.

The song is a simple setting of the text from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. I originally wanted to write it as a real theater song, but the character of the music makes it quite unusable for stage. Nevertheless, I like the song as it is - a dreamy and rather passionate art song.

Progressive/repetitive formal schemas

ABC
ABCD
_BCD
_BCDE
__CDE
__CDEF

etc.

ABC
_BCA
_BCD
__CDB
__CDE

etc.

ways to move forward (with repetition) in a time-based piece (music, dance, video, perhaps theater)

could be layered on top of each other in a medium that admits to layering

From a letter of Kafka

"The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation - a book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."


Perhaps this is true. But I can think of other kinds of books that I want.