Josepha and Rebecca got their book proposal in. It was harder than expected. We were writing about dynamics, a small and manageable-seeming part of the big topic of music theory.
Except that it wasn't. Sometimes it didn't even seem as though it was part of music theory at all. It seemed as though decisions about dynamics were all part of music practice -- musicianship, artistry, expression, stuff like that.
It seemed extremely imprecise, too.
One morning recently I was singing "Come Sunday" in church. This seems to me to be a song that is all about dynamics. I ran through it in the sanctuary for the sound guys and it seemed fine. Then the saxophone came in, and we ran through it together. Of course, I adjusted my dynamics. Then the sound guy came down.
"I never thought I'd say this to you," he said, "but you need a microphone."
So I got plugged in and we ran through it again, and I adjusted my dynamics again.
How can you put all that onto paper?
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Josepha had an email from someone who had visited her site and heard her sing, asking her to sing at a wedding. Unfortunately, Josepha was on tour in Italy! July is a big month in pop music history. It was in July that Billboard started keeping track of which songs were national hits, in July that the first rock album was released (by Bill Haley and the Comets), and in July that the Rolling Stones played their first public performance. It was also in July that Bob Dylan was booed for playing an electric guitar on stage for the first time, but that probably doesn't count. |
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