PeterthePapercomPoser

This time I come to you with my 13th casting, which I've done on Friday the 13th! GumDrop asked me "If I go into social work, what will my career look like?" (Muzoracle is a storytelling/fortune telling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice. Perhaps it may be thought of as a special musical Oracle card deck.) My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below. Since the casting was in the key of A (because the black musician's die landed on A), it pertained to the Third Eye Chakra which is associated with woodwinds. Because of this I picked English Horn. Because the first card drawn was a Perfect 4th of Brass, I also chose French Horn. Then, the card in the 2nd position was a Major 3rd of Percussion, so I chose Piano (also because GumDrop once played Piano). If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.net/ This short musical representation of GumDrop's Casting is about ~2 minutes long. I created the following melodic/harmonic underdrawing guided by the cards and the dice. I used the first few solfege dice as a skeleton for the main melody. To obtain extra material, I transposed the whole pattern up a perfect 4th to D, since the perfect 4th is a very prominent feature of the casting. Since the piece is in A and associated with the Third Eye Chakra, I started the piece with the English Horn. The Percussion card comes 2nd so I included the Piano as accompaniment. Then I finally added the French Horn. I also prominently use parallel 4ths throughout the piece which gives it a certain Asiatic/Impressionistic flavor. If you've gotten this far thanks for reading! And I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent GumDrop's casting. Comments, critiques, suggestions, and observations are of course, always welcome. Thanks for listening!

I come to you with yet another piece prompted by an exercise from Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" - Chapter 2: Scale Materials. This time the prompt was "11. Extend the following polymodal and polytonal passage." I chose to change the instrumentation to Bass Clarinet and Sopranino Clarinet as I thought that increasing the distance between the voices would preserve their individuality. I also heard the bottom voice as being more in C dorian rather than in G aeolian. But for the end of the piece I defaulted to a kind of linear cadence rather than ending each voice on its individual tonic. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

I have another musical quote from Gary Lachman's "Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson". And if you've gotten this far, thanks for reading!

Hi again @Frederic Gill! I decided to write my own invention based on the same motive here: Let me know what you think!

@Frederic Gill inspired this one. He wrote an invention as an exercise from one of his Counterpoint books on the same motive that you can hear here: I was inspired by his attempt so I decided to give it a try myself. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

Somehow I also missed this one: The "Bestowed Maestro" badge for 10,000 reactions received!

Looks like @Omicronrg9 already created badges for just such a purpose! From the bottom up: Local Celebrity Trending Artist Eminent Personality Famous Worldwide Nobody has yet received the "Famous Worldwide" badge nor the "Eminent Personality" badge.

Continuing with the Scale Materials Chapter in Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" I wrote this Clarinet Quintet. The prompt was "8. Construct a solo clarinet line in the lydian mode supported by phrygian string quartet harmony. Set both the melody and harmony on the tonal center Bb." Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

That's a neat idea. Except that this would not be a manually awardable badge but based on a rule (10,000+ reputation). The other problem is that right now the highest reputation held by anybody on the forum is @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu's at ~2,000. 10,000+ reputation seems like quite a lofty goal if nobody in the whole history of the website since the early 2000's has ever achieved it!

I've returned to Chapter 2 of Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" which is about Scale Materials, Polytonality and Polymodality. The prompt was "15. Create an original two-octave-scale harmonic texture in a scherzino for piano, four hands." I chose to use C major and C# Dorian as my composite two-octave-scale. Thanks for listening and I hope that you enjoy and let me know what you think!

I'm not sure I follow. There's already so many manually awardable badges .. surely you're not suggesting that someone could ever get them all?! . . .

I present to you the new badge - The Colossus of Prora

@Wieland Handke I googled "Colossus of Prora PNG icon" and I couldn't find the graphic that you used in this image. Could you send it to me please so I can officially make the badge? Thanks!