Old lady dies (see other post)

[Richard Barrett]

so how about this one?

As it happens I'm currently working with a student who's been studying the work of that composer so I know exactly what it is...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

You mean 1/256 or 1/128 surely? But in fact the shortest note has ten beams and is thus a 1/4096 note or a hemi-demi-semi-hemi-demi-semi-hemi-demi-semiquaver. (Given that BF's compositional techniques involve independent systems for constructing bar lengths and deciding how far they're to be subdivided I guess it was bound to happen eventually!)

Well, all I can say is that the Grade V sight-reading tests have grown harder since the days when I did them!

Anyway: it's not a piano part from a larger piece, it's from a piece for solo piano. Do you give up yet?

Yep; I'm going to have to - it's not a work I know. Yet.

[MrGongGong]

As it happens I'm currently working with a student who's been studying the work of that composer so I know exactly what it is...

I think we should have a chat about that
as I have someones Phd that is mostly about the same character ........ !

(Sorry I thought we had solved the first one..... but maybe a new thread ? )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ok then
so how about this one ? (no cheating)

Is it for a bowed string instrument? (Some of the symbols look like "bow tailpiece" indications.)

[EdgeleyRob]

Is it for a bowed string instrument? (Some of the symbols look like "bow tailpiece" indications.)

It's join the dots isn't it ? but I can't tell what it is yet.

[Beef Oven]

Ok then
so how about this one ? (no cheating)

Is it a short study in f for solo petomane?

Or has your Spyrograph got a wobbly cog?

[EdgeleyRob]

Shang-a-lang-a-lang-a-lang-a

(which is a trochaic rhythm, of course).

I'll be gutted if it's in C sharp minor,it isn't is it Ferney ?

Sounds major surely.

[teamsaint]

I'll be gutted if it's in C sharp minor,it isn't is it Ferney ?

Sounds major surely.

Looks like spooky the alien reading a book, to me.

In E major, probably.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'll be gutted if it's in C sharp minor,it isn't is it Ferney ?

Sounds major surely.

Yes: Bb major, possibly?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

In E major, probably.

I don't think the Rollers' jeans were ever that tight!

[MrGongGong]

Is it for a bowed string instrument? (Some of the symbols look like "bow tailpiece" indications.)

The instrumentation isn't specific
but they aren't bowing marks

[teamsaint]

I don't think the Rollers' jeans were ever that tight!

I never really looked....

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The instrumentation isn't specific

Do you need a Great Learning to know the composer, then?

[MrGongGong]

Do you need a Great Learning to know the composer, then?

A good guess
but sadly not

(I had thought of posting that but then Bryn )

[Richard Barrett]

it's not a work I know. Yet.

In fact it's a new piano piece written for Nicolas Hodges called Quirl and subtitled "Study in self-similar rhythms". The premiere was announced a couple of years ago but it's only just been finished.