Monday, November 20, 2006
12:08 PM
Not a bad morning. I came up with some nice ideas. Things are starting to gain some focus.
The faster ideas are in good shape: the scherzo or barbaro type of ideas. The more eerie ones are fine too, like my nocturne ideas.
I love these types of pieces and have evolved a certain style in the writing of them. Furthermore, they hold chromaticism and dissonance quite naturally, giving them a more “modern” bite that satisfies both my aesthetic and academic sides. I’ll start writing those pieces tomorrow.
It is the brighter, lighter ideas that I wish to write I am having some problem with. You know, something that says Religioso without the Tenebroso. I want some brightness on this CD, some patches of light, not all sturm und drang!
So I am exploring to see if I can accomplish this without resorting to pure diatonic or modal writing. I have tried many ideas, and some of them work pretty well, but I sometimes feel that I am going through some purging process, sweating the “dissonance” out of my system.
Perhaps, one day, my inner-academic will make peace with diatonicism. Who know?
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