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about cenotaph

Cenotaph was written in 1981, as I remember for a competition for choir at a festival of some kind. I never submitted it so I've never heard it. (see the full score in its own post). I don't know if I missed the deadline, a not unlikely situation considering the time it took to produce a score like this before computer aided notation. Even simple photocopies were difficult to come by. It's also possible I didn't have the funds for photocopies, postage and entry fees. Cenotaph, btw, is a monument erected for someone deceased when there is no body to bury. For those interested, the score was produced on 11x17 transparent paper laid over graph paper. The only tools were a t-square to produce staff lines and bar lines, a technical pen for that lining, and a hand ground esterbrook replacement nib in an oblique shape placed in an esterbrook body.

Next in line: the compositional process or wasting paper; and the publication of Three Handbooks: Harmony, Arranging, Songwriting

Well, between pieces again. I finished string quartet number 38 and, not surprisingly, more ideas for quartets are in mind. I've also been holding the idea for a multi piano piece, a piece for men's choir, and orchestral work. So now the unsettling time of choosing. Mostly this consists of scribbling on paper, writing down guidelines and matters, trying pitch combinations spacings and permutations. I used to refer to it as wasting paper. Actually I still refer to it as wasting paper but said with affection. I actually like the physical activity of putting ink on paper. I love to see the contrast of that black ink against this beautiful cream paper that I use. And I love the actual physical feel writing. There's a feedback that you get from the paper as the pinpoint glides over there the surface. And I always use fountain pen. Although in the past I might change the writing utensil between pieces, changing between different pens, changing between wood pencils or mechanical p...

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