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If so, what was the last one you bought? Do you have any suggestions? One of the latest scores I bought which I could recommend is Ligeti's Violin Concerto, by Schott, done in SCORE. It is masterfully and virtuously done score, particularly when you see the complexity of it, it leaves you breathles...

Is anybody on this forum certain what Beethoven really meant by mezza voce in string parts at the beginning of the slow movement of his quartet opus 74? (see the attached scan). As a direction to singers, its meaning would be unequivocal. To a singer mezza voce means exactly what it says: 'half voic...

FWIW, performers have sometimes been surprised at how relaxed and non-prescriptive I often am in rehearsals of my own music (assuming the performers are fully competent technically and have a good understanding of the music): “Not like other composers,” I've been told more than once. In two weeks ti...

I'm in general agreement with the posts here; but playing ‘Devil's advocate’ it might be worth mentioning that yesterday the UK daily broadsheet The Independent announced that from the end of March it will cease to publish a print copy and will only be available on-line. Its daily sales have rapidly...

John Ruggero wrote:… … musical McMansions… …

I've learnt a new word!

It's a nice term with which to mock a certain type of film music, though perhaps the word itself might not catch on here in Scotland (where names beginning 'Mc' or 'Mac' take up pages and pages in every telephone directory).

OCTO wrote:… … … here is a typical ravelian solution, in three clarinets:

Exactement!

John Ruggero wrote:I am glad that everyone is enjoying and learning from this forum, the brainchild of OCTO. I certainly am.

Yes indeed, even if some of it is a little over my head (as a mere composer!).

Thanks indeed to OCTO.

… … … In other words, her definition neglects any tuplets irregular to any other value than two or three, which is not uncommon in modern music (e.g., some of the tuplets in the last Xenakis piece quoted in this thread is not considered by Gould's definition: http://notat.io/viewtopic.php?f=3&t...

E. Gould gives a very strange definition of a tuplet that is to me almost incomprehensible and seemingly incorrect: "A tuplet is a rhythmic division that does not divide unto standard groups of two or three." Even if John's minor typo (it should be 'into' not 'unto') is corrected, when ta...

I see that one of these pieces, Mists, was written for Roger Woodward. I met him in the late 1960s or early 1970s. He seemed more than intense, but was clearly brilliant both pianistically and musically.