composition session 5 - final revisions for "Around a Center"

19:24 “a work of art is never finished” 43:48 identifying your compositional principles and sticking to them (more or less) 45:48 playing the transitional material 47:57 working on transitional material 49:56 long diversion of mucking about with Dorico settings 53:09 RTFM 53:36 having a brain aneurysm trying to understand "Allow partial beams on stemless rest at start or end of beam" (???) 56:01 playing "find the difference" 59:39 fourthy chords 1:02:49 getting in the pocket with your material 1:09:08 the need to properly sketch material 1:21:50 changing the rhythm of the sequence and getting the final version 1:26:25 being aware of your influences and Harold Bloom "Anxiety of Influence" 1:32:30 musical climaxes 1:36:01 Debussy's musical climaxes 1:39:01 bullying myself for my Debussy editions 1:40:19 thoughts on L'isle joyeuse and Debussy's missing "late period" 1:46:49 example of Rachmaninoff climax 1:49:17 re-examining the proportions of my own composition 1:50:13 playing entire piece through (with sketchy ending) 2:01:57 thoughts on livestreaming in general and why i'm doing it 2:07:11 getting out of the rut 2:12:24 working on the ending 2:17:54 getting fussy about pedal marks 2:19:19 fighting with Dorico about pedal marks 2:22:41 music notation: practice defines tradition 2:30:43 playing with ending 2:35:05 flip-flopping between alternatives, "decide not to decide" 2:38:07 more fun with sequences 2:42:18 fighting with Dorico to get a bracket symbol 2:47:30 what composing sounds like 2:50:45 what practicing sounds like 2:54:31 bonus! rambling about doritos