Did I tell you I'm writing a paper about a Ferneyhough piece? I just opened the score to a page at random and found a quintuplet nested in a 19:12-plet (i.e., 19 beat divisions in the space of 12) nested in an 11:10-plet. (We're in 5/8, btw.) Every other instrumental line has crazy borrowed beats too, and none of them match up with this line. And this was a page chosen at random!
I'm claiming it's a re-imagining of a '70s piece in which the performers are told to look up at the sky and sing the constellations they see as if they were on staves.
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Date: 2009-05-09 04:35 am (UTC)Did I tell you I'm writing a paper about a Ferneyhough piece? I just opened the score to a page at random and found a quintuplet nested in a 19:12-plet (i.e., 19 beat divisions in the space of 12) nested in an 11:10-plet. (We're in 5/8, btw.) Every other instrumental line has crazy borrowed beats too, and none of them match up with this line. And this was a page chosen at random!
I'm claiming it's a re-imagining of a '70s piece in which the performers are told to look up at the sky and sing the constellations they see as if they were on staves.
Because the show is now a soap opera?
Naw, soap operas have better pacing.