Monday, October 06, 2003 :::
FINISHED!!!! FOR REAL THIS TIME!!!!!
::: IM comments to Sphere991 or e-mail to sphere99991@hotmail.com. Posted by Barry at 5:38 PM
Wednesday, October 01, 2003 :::
First 141 measures fixed. Can you feel the excitement? I'm almost done!!
Oh, I got my 2nd rough draft of my essay back today. There were a many comments of the manner of "Need more examples" and another one that is rather exciting to find out a week and a half before the deadline:
Where's the thesis?
::: IM comments to Sphere991 or e-mail to sphere99991@hotmail.com. Posted by Barry at 5:16 PM
Monday, September 29, 2003 :::
First 71 measures fixed. Some took a long time to adjust, sort of makes me wonder what I was thinking when I did them the first time around.
::: IM comments to Sphere991 or e-mail to sphere99991@hotmail.com. Posted by Barry at 4:11 PM
Thursday, September 18, 2003 :::
Took advantage of the lack of school due to Hurrace Isabel to start proofing the sonata. First 24 measures seem to have everything in order now.
::: IM comments to Sphere991 or e-mail to sphere99991@hotmail.com. Posted by Barry at 9:33 AM
Monday, September 15, 2003 :::
It has been suggested that I add a MIDI of the Sonata to this site. Well, here it is. It doesn't sound much like it should, I'm not exactly sure how to control the MIDI, if you want a real recording of the piece, you'd have to email Soheil Nasseri and ask his permission. If he agrees, I suppose I could mail you a copy.
Anyway, off to things that fascinate me. I have been learning over the past couple days that people read this blog. Thank you. I assure you I will post more interesting things now that I am so close to complete with this task. I actually have been with this site for about a year now (I received the manuscript at roughly 6:45pm on 8 September 2002 and finished the first draft at roughly 10:12am on 13 September 2003), and it's wonderful to see it come to fruition. In fact, a dear friend has noted an article to me in the Guardian Unlimited newspaper about Sorabji. The article is essentially about Jonathan Powell's up and coming performace of Opus clavicembalisticum. Anyone who has heard of this piece knows how impossible it is. Allow me a digression to include the dedication of this piece:
"To the everlasting glory of those Few
MEN -
Blessed and sanctified in the Curses and Execrations
of those MANY -
Whose Praise is Eternal Damnation.
That aside, something in the article struck me as most peculiar:
"Over the past decade there has been something of a growing cult around Sorabji, who died in 1988. More and more recordings are being made for the first time, and there is even an internet blog by an American music student detailing his year-long efforts to correct and transcribe the manuscript of the Sonata Opus VII for piano. Sorabji may have ended up writing mainly for himself and an imagined posterity, but the sun is gradually rising over the extraordinarily rich and complex worlds he created."
I am famous!! I will take being described as in a growing cult. I am famous!!
Thank you, dear readers, thank you.
::: IM comments to Sphere991 or e-mail to sphere99991@hotmail.com. Posted by Barry at 3:39 PM
Saturday, September 13, 2003 :::
DONE!!!! With a few minor exceptions. First, in measure 209 there are two 11-tuplet runs and two 12-tuplet runs. Sibelius won't let me do EITHER!! Which frustrates me a lot. Secondly, I have to figure out how to make measures run between lines, because otherwise some measures (like 201 - see previous post) become entirely illegible. Which means, I still have a lot of work to do.
::: IM comments to Sphere991 or e-mail to sphere99991@hotmail.com. Posted by Barry at 10:12 AM
Friday, September 12, 2003 :::
I only have 7 measures left. I WILL finish tomorrow with the main transcription. But then I'm going to have to start making it more aesthetically pleasing and, essentially, legible. The most illegibile measure I have encountered to date is one that I did today, this one:
Clearly, this will have to be fixed. I don't know what it says and I have two other editions right in front of me!
::: IM comments to Sphere991 or e-mail to sphere99991@hotmail.com. Posted by Barry at 5:13 PM
