It’s a nice, little Recercar. And, there’s nothing much more to say about it. Well, it’s the first piece by Bossinensis I’ve played and the first I recorded, not sure how I feel about him yet, will play more pieces from him in time.
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for the past two decades I’ve been using Lilypond to engrave everything music related. With the help of the community I’ve created templates for 10 course lute so I’ll spend less time creating the framework and just write the music.
If you don’t know Lilypond, it is one of the most advanced music engraving tool out there, and it’s open source. I won’t get into much details about it, you can read it all in the website. But Lilypond, advanced as it is also have many issue, most, if not all can be solved using the great discussion groups. There are a lot of option, for me, too many options. I couldn’t tweak my framework to the degree I wanted, some tweaks are not possible (for my knowledge) and some takes too many resources.
Unlike most other softwares out there, Lilypond is using text to produce the output, it’s more like programming then music writing and for me it takes longer to write some types of compositions. Also, as I write this, there is no support to export Lilypond to MusicXML, which means, sharing between supported applications like MuseScore, Finale and Sibelius.
Another issue with Lilypond is the MacOS support. There is a support, kind of, but it’s unofficial, so it can stop at any day for no reason whatsoever. The last package for 64 bit is Lilypond 2.22 from 2020 while the official stable release is 2.22.2, you can use HomeBrew or MacPorts to get the latest versions but it depends on the maintainers.
The solution for my problems came from a lute discussion group and it’s called MuseScore. Unlike Lilypond it has a point and click paradigm, which I’m not used to, but the results are instant. I can see right away and I don’t have to compile the file to see the result. In the first hour I managed to create a framework for 10 course lute, although with only treble staff and I will have to get used to point and click again, but I like it. Getting used to a new software is not an easy task, but I need to get better results and for now, MuseScore is the best option.
So this is it Lilypond, I’m sorry ,but it doesn’t work anymore between us. We had some good time together, but it’s time to move on.
13 years, 13 years have passed since I first recorded this amazing piece of music, perhaps one of my most favorite pieces in the history of music. Same lute, but not same me. Lute by James Marriage (2006) after Hans Frei. Also, there’s a link to the first recording.
So yes, I’m always working on improving myself, and together with a friend I came to some conclusions and now I’m working to implement these changes.
First of all, I stopped smoking, it’s been two weeks now. This is one major change, one of the hardest things I had to do, but I HAD to do that for other changes to happen. So goodbye smoking, and fuck you. You brought me nothing but trouble, health issues and less money.
Second, I’ve decided to teach again, after about 10 years. There are several reasons, first of all it’s good (I hope) for my mental health, I don’t see many people outside my family, I have a meeting a week with my social worker and two with my aid, and that’s pretty much it. Second, when you teach, you also learn. And I want to learn too, I want to listen to new music, new pieces I haven’t heard before, there’s a lot out there. Third, I could use some extra cash so I can buy recording equipment and record the album I want so much.
Third, I’m going to the piano less and now, yes, it means I’ll record with some basic equipment for now (some even my laptops microphone), but I play Lute and Guitar, not the piano. It’s appropriate to use my instruments. I avoided that issue for a long time, tried to delay it, but I have to do it with what I’ve got. With time, I’ll get the equipment I need (audio interface and microphones) but you are welcome to donate (information at the end)
I’m really excited with these changes, I hope you too. Please feel free to ask me for more information.
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This is one of these pieces that refuse to leave you. The theme was stuck in my head until I wrote it, the cadences refused to leave me alone until I solved them and it was a good brain practice.
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A Prelude, to what? I don’t know! It came out just the way I heard it, not complicated but still with some meat.
Still playing with the same theme from Fantasy IV, but this is the last time, I promise. It had some challenges, but it’s the beauty of Counterpoint.
The followers can recognize the theme, yes, it’s the same theme from Fantasy IV. I really liked it, so I’m playing around with the theme.
Enjoy!
Another toy, for no reason. I enjoyed writing it, also really enjoy playing it. Recorded at April 19th 2022.
I wasn’t sure about the tempo, so I decided to keep it as I wrote it. But you can play it faster, just don’t go too fast.