日本

Well I am off to Japan in twelve hours, talk to you all when I get back.

Ursus Demens

Moon Shadow

My latest Big Band Piece, not quite finished, but ready for day light.
Moon Shadow Please leave a note a let me know what you think about it.

Will finish it up when I get back from Japan.

Ursus Demens

Time

Well time seems to be always slipping away from me. I must apologize for not posting anything this week. I am hard at work on my newest Big Band Jazz piece, but it is not quite ready for public scrutiny. My decision to not continue with my weekly Blog piece lifted a burden from my shoulders that I was not aware of. That is to say I did not realize how much pressure I had placed on myself to write a presentable piece every week. So with that burden lifted I basically “veg out” for several days and did no composing.

Next week I am off to Japan for two weeks of vacation. I hope to at least have a preliminary version of the Jazz piece available on line before I leave. I will have little to no access to the internet for those two weeks, so look for me the last week of April. Hope to see you all then.

Ursus Demens

The Last 15 Weeks

As I said last week, now with the vernal equinox behind us I have stop writing a weekly musical Blog piece. I am currently finishing a Big Band piece that I started during the 15 weeks that wrote my musical Blog pieces, and I have several scores that I need to get back to and polish up the engraving and play back. So please check back as I will be posting links to new and revised pieces, and possibly talking about various musical and compositional issues and ideas.

When I started writing the weekly musical Blog piece I set for myself the goal that each piece, while short, would be a complete composition. I will leave it to you to decide how well I achieved my goal.

So for you perusal, edification, amusement, and ridicule, the 15 piece that I have written over the last 15 weeks:


12-Dec-04 Paper Crane
19-Dec-04 Dancing Up The Morning Sun
26-Dec-04 22,000 Songs Fall Silent
02-Jan-05 Meiousei
09-Jan-05 Zeta 2 Reticuli
16-Jan-05 Dark Stairs in a Strange City
23-Jan-05 Remembrance of a Forgotten Memory
30-Jan-05 Thelyphthoric
06-Feb-05 Thou Stars of Winter
13-Feb-05 Until They Took Her Away
20-Feb-05 Koibumi
27-Feb-05 Nocturne
06-Mar-05 Single Malt
13-Mar-05 Facilis Descensus Averno
20-Mar-05 Drifting Across The Sea of Stars

Edo S. Bear, The Ursus Demens

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This Week's Piece

This Week's Piece (March 20th, 2005 Anno Domini) Drifting Across The Sea of Stars Is available for listening. This will be the last "weekly" piece for awhile. But I will keep blogging what is happening with my music on a regular basis. I will soon post a link to the Big Band chart I am working on.


Ursus Demens

Today is Thursday

Well I have been doing my weekly musical Blog pieces since just before the winter solstice. With it now just past the vernal equinox I have written and published 14 pieces of music. At the beginning of this week I was not sure if I would continue. I have however written a piece for this week, which I hope I can finished tonight and get it posted before the weekend.

However I do not think I am going to continue at this hectic pace. I was going to stop with last week's piece when I had trouble getting started with a piece for this week, but everything came together last night, so this week will be the 15th in my weekly Blog pieces, and will be number 99 of my published scores on Sibelius Music. But it will be my last weekly piece, at least for the spring. Possible I will do a weekly Blog for another season. But for now I am going to spend what little time I have for composing working on some longer and more involved pieces and going back and polishing up some of the weekly Blog pieces.

I will however continue to post to my Blog with updates on the music I am writing and occasionally providing links to works in progress. In fact I have been working on a new Jazz piece for Big Band for the last couple of weeks, I will post a link to the half complete score in the next couple of days.

So, that is all for today, I will be back soon, and I hope to hear from you all soon. Take care.

Ursus Demens

Facilis descensus Averno

Musical Blog for the Week of March 13th, 2005 Anno Domini. Facilis descensus Averno
A serial piece for Harpsichord exploring four against five.

This Week's Music

Well this week has been a real struggle to get the music written. I have gone through four of five ideas this, before settling on this weeks piece. I have finished it and as soon as it is available onlin e I will post a link to it. Take care.

Ursus Demens

Single Malt

Single Malt
Musical Blog for the Week of March 6th, 2005 Anno Domini.

A Modal Jazz tune in 9/4 time divided 3+2+2+2, for vibes, piano, bass, drums and conga. Alternate Title is "Before The Dawn". Which title do you prefer?

My Music at SibeliusMusic

Late Again

Well I am late, again, getting this week's musical blog posted, however I have written the music. I just need to finish up some details and tidy up the score and twick the balances. I hope to have it up before the weekend. The current working title is Single Malt. It is a Model Jazz tune in 9/4 time divided 3+2+2+2, for Vibes, piano, bass, drums and conga.

Nocturne in search of a name

Nocturne: Musical Blog for the Week of February 27th, 2005 Anno Domini.

I am still not happy with the balance between all of the parts, but I have grown tried of twicking it, so here it is warts and all.

For one of the few times in my life I have been unable to come up with a title that I am happy with, so while it is currently called Nocturne I am open to suggestions for its final name.

P.S. Thank you Susan.

Hello

Hello, anyone out there?

Well I am late getting this week's musical blog posted, however I have written the music. I just need to tidy up the score and twick the balances. I hope to have it up tonight or tomorrow morning.

Is anyone reading this?

Edo S. Bear