Akipk

I deleted my harddrive and now have this problem where Logic audio, my midi application and finale both don't recognise my keyboard's input. I have installed OMS and created a midi setup through the Opcode folder, but the computer even there isn't recognising my keyboard. I'm wondering if some of you might actually not be as stupid as I am when it comes to these things.

how can you keep a thread alive when you don't have anything contraversial going?

Maybe he did it for shock factor, when mum first saw it aat the movies with my brother, she was wondering what happened to the other 3. Maybe he wanted it to look weird from the start.

Easy, take a hammer to their computer! Congrats Jeremy, I hope it all goes well!

Add me to the list for CE3K And Nacht from Pierrot Lunaire, Schoenberg. Good stuff.

This isn't to do with music right? I'd have to say the Yavin 4 battle, although that Yoda scene rocked too!

ewwwww, I voted for ESB, but I haven't actually seen AI yet. (yes, really.) But now I'm intriguled, so I'll have to go get it out...

I think it's individual scores. I hope. Add Cloud City to that list

I think there would be one in that cloud city thing I mentioned. Ummm, what does augmented 6th chords have anthing to do about jazz? Jazz consists of tritone substitues, seventh chords, progressions and swing feel etc, augmented 6ths are there but they are actually a classical tradition. John Williams has composed many works and hundreds of themes, not all of them will be evenly constructed, I can't find any of his scores at hand at the moment, but they should be there. Is extreme symmetry a bad thing when the audience likes it though? Ask who likes to listen to Webern? I am musically literate and stuff, and I analyse and all that stuff, but I'm also able to let go and listen to my favourite composer, and Webern gives me a headache. Although I do love Schoenberg. I should add that John Williams music is full of non standard harmonies and chromatisism, and he also utilises atonalism, if you listen more, and less anaytlically, you may be able to find it. Jsawruk, you seem like a bundle of nerves to me, you really need to kick back, chill out, have a drink and listen to his music while lying down and staring at the ceiling or reading a book or something, and get out of the whole analytical process. Who decides who is the greatest composer, the critics or the audience? The answer is easy, who pays the bills? ~Akipk, who loves and sings every note she writes.

What's klangfarbenmelodie style? I didn't like AOTC score that much either, lol.

K.M., tap a steady beat with your left hand, then with your right hand tap 3 beats ot that one and fit them in evenly, that is what a triplet is. Triplets are not a jazz element, Jazz is usually written straight in duplets, (not always) and it's for the performer to feel the swing beat. Triplets occur in music in general, jazz is more concerned with syncopation, which means accented weak beats, which John uses a lot of too. He uses triplets in a variety of manners, especially to give momentum to the rhythm, to create direction to the melodic idea and flow to the accomponiment. That with unexpected colouring of chromatisism is what is awesome about his music to me.

Jsawruk, I'm new to this board, I haven't actually seen one of your posts until now. The thread was not aimed at you, but rather at the two people I know in real life who say a composer is bad before actually sitting down and listening to a piece of music, which is not what you have done. They seperate themselves from knowing film music because they are snobs and it is beneath them, yet you have not, and that makes you different to them. You don't seem arrogant in pointing out JW's mistakes, I know he makes them too, he has his low points, and I agree with you that he is not the greatest composer ever, but I think he is the most enjoyable composer to listen to that I have heard.

This is bad, pianoman, and it is not your fault. Don't get emotional over what he says, because I will tell you straight he had no right in saying it... unless your friend made it up but I doubt it. Band leaders sound interesting. Find away to contact all of them away from the bandmaster, because by the sounds of it, if he did not look at your piano score, he has no interest in you whatsoever, and will not perform the piece. This means you are going to have to organise the performance yourself, the performers and the venue. The reason why I have mentioned it's good that you have band leaders is that you are going to need to use them. But first approach people lower on the ladder and ask them for help on their instrument group. You may have to shout all the members of your band a iced coffee or something too. Good luck, I have been here before, and I know how damn hard it is.

He uses ideas of melodic contour, but because the harmonies are altered, the melodies changed and orchestration is different, it is considered original. Just because Holst paused on a brass augmented chord, and John did the same, doesn't make him a stealer. It's just an idea that he took and modified to his own needs, J.S. Bach learnt that way, so did Mozart, Mozart didn't write twinkle twinkle little star, but developed Bach's idea into his own. That is composing. Our best ideas are always taken from others and worked upon.

lol, still an opinion, therefore you're entitled to it, you might get locked away for it, but it's still valid