Okay, this is the last of the music projects I’ll be posting about for now. This one’s actually a jazz tune, a lead sheet and a little MIDI playback of the melody, for now, though I’m considering turning it into something bigger.
So, late yesterday night I finally finished getting the notes in for Round Midnight, which is the third and final movement of the Monk Suite. This one took more work than “Well You Needn’t” in some ways. The reason is that this is the one song I originally arranged from a “bad” chart. (Also, a very commonly-used, and commonly-known, I used the old Real Book chart, which has some speculative harmony that doesn’t match Monk’s very well. I think it’s the chord changes Miles Davis used, as mentioned here.) Ethan Iverson’s discussion of Monk’s misrepresentation in general is what made …
This is one more post about a music project that’s ongoing. This one was on hiatus for a long time, but finally is close to done, with all input completed and only dynamic markings needing to be added to some of the pieces. It was back in 1995-96 that I composed some program music for the T.S. Eliot play Murder in the Cathedral. The music I actually composed never got performed—it was too tough for the voice to handle given the amount of rehearsal time we had when I gave them the music. (That’s on me: I didn’t budget enough …
This is another post about an ongoing music project. This one’s a song to which I set the lyrics of David Petersen’s “Oh Day Away,” published in a comic, and how I ended up arranging the song for choir in a traditional style. Unlike with “Monk Suite,” there’s actually a sound clip, albeit just rough MIDI… but it’s something to listen to! It’s a setting of a lovely lyric by Mouse Guard author David Peterson to a melody of my own, arranged for choir.
Though my recent posts are a testament to how busy I’ve been lately—and really, they just scratch the surface—I haven’t abandoned #dungeon23. Oh, no, I may have missed the odd day (and mostly caught up after, but sometimes just with a room and a word or two for a vague idea about what’s in it, but I’m still going. I just haven’t posted in a while because of the size of what I was keying. As you can see, it’s…. an underground complex. Well, mostly underground. If you were able to read the chickenscratch on my previous post, you’ll have …