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Hello Dr. Kalve, As with yo
 

Hello Dr. Kalve,

As with your serialism vocal piece, I enjoyed seeing the amount of detail you put into the music annotations in this piano piece. I admire such dedication, as many of us, by the time we've entered the notes, get too lazy to annotate the score, even though that's where the score comes to life.

Sherry asks some good questions above about how you entered the notes. I'd be interested in also knowing about how your time was divided between adding the notes and adding the annotations.

I notice a lot of augmented 4th intervals in this piece, which serve to break down the tonality, which is then starkly contrasted by tonal sections. I happen to enjoy such aburpt changes in tonality as you employ.

Cheers
-- Mark

Yep - those fourths were a key
 

Yep - those fourths were a key idea (oh noooo a pun) to the piece. I am so glad you both enjoyed it. Sherry is quite right about the tempi settings - my fault - I will go through the whole piece and try to get them set. But the piece is meant to be a really dynamic, even earthy sort of piece, so speed and articulation are very important. Most was composed on paper and at a piano, then rewritten using the mouse and pc.

Effectively I compose episodically, perhaps for an hour at a time, then play through the ideas. I try to create improvised bridge sections, and only after running through alternate ideas (usually scribbling a bit on paper too), do I begin to plan out the structure as a written map, and then compose properly. I tend to add accents, crescendos and diminuendos and other markings after playing through the completed piece - unless I feel I need to put something down before I forget!

---Peter

Hello Peter, its me, Markus
 

Hello Peter,

its me, Markus, your cousin.

My mail server is down at present. Therefore I try to reach you by this way. What about your making music? Unfortunately I didn't receive another song from you.

Now I can count myself to the group of Masters, too. When you have time, why not calling back?

Yours Markus