it's all beeyooteefool -

November 24, 2006

@9:47 PM

so listen to our hearts

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jericho is nice nice nice! & the bass clarinet part isn't that hard to play either! except for e first two bars where there's only bass clarinet & baritone sax & i just have the feeling i'll start squeaking all over the place once i try to play louder. but yep it's really pretty, as in, you can really envision everything happening along with the music, the desolation of Joshua as he led the Israelites, the seven rounds of marching, the crumbling of the magnificent walls, & the glory of the sacred trumpets! love.

finally got my premium membership! nyahahahaha tis time to raid the esplanade library, oh yes. whee! something i simply must horde first include the orchestral score of pictures at an exhibition, intend to compare it with the original piano one & learn more about orchestration, which is seriously darn kool. everyone should try it sometime! as in, even a simple G chord takes a LOT of effort.

like how if you want it to be soft, the bassoon can't play low notes because apparently its loud, violins and cellos and doublebasses cant play the G below middle C because it's an open string and it can't be softened with vibrato, flutes oboes and clarinets can't play high notes because they're piercing, and apparently muted horns have a soft mystical quality to them.

then, the notes matter too. if too many instruments play G, it gets too heavy and doesnt feel like a nice rounded chord. if the Ds are too obvious, it wouldn't sound like a G chord anymore. and so on and so forth, then take the different instruments into consideration, the number of instruments, etc etc. and compare that to playing a simple G chord on the piano!

okay fine, all that was koped from a book on orchestration i was reading a while ago. but it's darn kool right! which is why i want to do first hand research :) & pictures at an exhibition has got to be the best orchestration ever done. cheers to ravel!

am not making much sense. shall hop off now & continue being hyper over my premium membership. am entirely too lazy to upload photos, but meet the rainbow!

Many seek at a distance the God who stands before them at the door of their heart. They are waiting for a ladder to be thrown down from Heaven, while all the time Christ has descended the ladder and is right there beside them. - Every Day With Jesus ( Thursday, 23 Nov )

& i embraced the world;