The current piece of music that I am
working on is a bit of a Frankenstein Piece of Music. It is not
about Mary Shelley’s Monster nor is it about Edgar Winter’s piece
of that name; but from the fact that it comprises material from
several pieces that that have written over the years.
The title comes from a set of theme and
variations for piano that I wrote in the late 1970’s. And the six
bar prelude (intro) of the piece is a re-orchestration of one of the
variations. Other than the title and those six bars no other
material from that piece is used. The bass line is derived from a
common Baroque passacaglia pattern. In 3/2 meter the bass is laid
over a six bar drum and bass patter in the drums. The main theme is a
E minor pentatonic theme that I wrote for string orchestra when I
was doing my music blog pieces in the winter of 2004/2005. The
second theme is from a stench I had done last year (or the year
before) but had never done anything with. The rest of the material
comes from various fragments from by note books along with some new
material (the 9/8 sections is new). I am still working on the mixing
of the piece and I should have at least a rough mix within a week. A
score will take a bit more time as another aspect of the
Frankenstein nature of the piece is that only some of the music is
currently in score format and some of it was directly played into
Sonar so I will need to bring those bits back into Sibelius to get a
final complete score, that is if I feel motivated to do so.
Stay tune and I will let know when
there is something to listen to.
Ursus Demens
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