Re: Hexagrams [was Re: hypothetical Yangshao calendar (early China)]

From: Comm (tjsrno_at_spampost.com)
Date: 03/07/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 07:37:19 GMT

"Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
news:422B08B3.5B50@worldnet.att.net...
> Comm wrote:
>> You asked me about music. You do not figure that I can naturally play
>> the
>> pieces in order to change them into dance music. You trash me instead.
>> I've written and sold music - and no, I will not give you a url, not now.
>> Sucker me once, never twice. I am a musician. I've had classical
>> training. I
>> **prefer** ballroom music and mentioned some beautiful songs by name,
>> tangos. There is no law saying I can't take pieces that I can play and
>> change them. I strongly doubt that Chopin would mind if he was alive.
I'd
>> have to be able to play them in order to change them or play them any
>> other
>> way. I can tell you, playing FanImp by Chopin as a samba was a LOT
>> harder
>> than playing it straight - and I mean the entire piece. There is just
>> something about a rhythm machine in the background, relentlessly beating
>> out
>> a rhythm that makes FI a lot harder to play - considering how fast the
>> piece
>> is - and having to change what the left hand is doing to chords. A lot
>> harder. I even had to slow it down since the speed was too fast for a
>> samba - and still, it was a lot harder to play as a samba than play
>> straight. I couldn't quite figure out why, either. Perhaps because I'm
>> used to playing it straight. Also I know because the keyboard revoices
>> chords so that what I'm actually hitting with my fingers is not what I
>> expect to come out. That plus that relentless beat.
>
> Those sound like excellent reasons for not forcing Chopin into a
> ballroom-dance mode.

I'm not the first. "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" - a pretty famous song
made from the slower middle part of Fan.Imp. I played the entire piece.
Actually, I made a samba out of it, or a merengue. I made the Tango out of
the Nocturn in Cm and it really does lend itself to that beutifully. That
it brings joy to the many people that like it and dance to it is fine.
Ballroom dancing in itself, is a type of art.

>
>> You know, if you had been a HUMAN BEING, I'd have sincerely asked you
>> which
>> rendering of Passacaglia in C minor you liked best. But others are
>> reading.
>
> I certainly haven't heard every recording of that work, but I like
> Rübsam's latest recordings (the incomplete Naxos series).
>
>> That, plus the A minor Adagio from Bach's Tocatta Adagio and Fugue in C
>> major (as played by E. Power Biggs only) are my two and only favorite
>> Bach
>> organ pieces. I pass on all the others. But I can see this is a waste
>> of
>> time to ask you. I can't even say something without you either
>> misreading
>> it or misquoting it on purpose. (MY mistake, on c 256 - comes from doing
>> two things at once).
>>
>> For anyone else interested, I think E. Power Biggs's Passacaglia Cm Bach
>> was
>> the best I ever heard. The only rendering of Passacaglia in Cm I can say
>> actually tops that is one I downloaded in a little midi file. Every
>> single
>> note is so clear, so precise and crisp - it gives me the chills to hear
>> it.
>> And I also think that is one of the most beautiful pieces ever written.
>> If
>> anyone wants a copy of it, say so here if you are reading this. I can
>> email
>> it, it's small enough (150 or so kb). The Fugue is included. The file
>> is
>> no longer up at any midi site - I have it.

snip. NLI.
>

> Peter T. Daniels grammatim@att.net

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