Classical Music Composition Now and Then: UCLA Professor behind the times. http://www.octavebox.com/discussion/ucla-roger-bourland-why-i-didnt-get-in/ Learn. Play. Dominate. Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:47:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Classical Music Composition Now and Then: UCLA Professor behind the times. http://www.octavebox.com/discussion/ucla-roger-bourland-why-i-didnt-get-in/comment-page-1/#comment-2 jamescombs Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:11:34 +0000 http://www.octavebox.com/?p=70#comment-2 Nice post. Roger B. visited my blog this morning and stated he felt his post wasn't well thought through and then he followed up with a pretty good post at his site which made quite a bit more sense. Then he informed me that his brother died, so I just took my article down, which was a little more mean spirited than perhaps it should have been, at least in high-insight. I agree with the notation and dynamic markings, but not in all cases. What I call coffee table music or background music, it leaves much room for interpretation to the player. Of course, so long as they play in the general ballpark. My score you commented on didn't have any markings (I'll mention this quickly) ;) because, well..., it can't be played by a human. I'll experiment with slowing it down and perhaps add some markings in the style Satie might enjoy. Nice post. Roger B. visited my blog this morning and stated he felt his post wasn’t well thought through and then he followed up with a pretty good post at his site which made quite a bit more sense. Then he informed me that his brother died, so I just took my article down, which was a little more mean spirited than perhaps it should have been, at least in high-insight.

I agree with the notation and dynamic markings, but not in all cases. What I call coffee table music or background music, it leaves much room for interpretation to the player. Of course, so long as they play in the general ballpark.

My score you commented on didn’t have any markings (I’ll mention this quickly) ;) because, well…, it can’t be played by a human. I’ll experiment with slowing it down and perhaps add some markings in the style Satie might enjoy.

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