New TV
Old one died. The old Phillips LCD TV we had up and died on us. It stopped responding to its remote and to its set-mounted buttons as well. Other than that it turned on – it just wou;dn’t do anything. I would suspect that something was going wrong with it microprocessor. It’s been thruough a lot of power outages and such over the years and it’s likely it’s firmware got corrupted. Mom and I
New UPS purchased
I have been experiencing occasional power brownouts/glitches in the computer room due to my new Toshiba AC unit kicking on and off, and because of that I discovered that the battery in my APC BE650G1 standby UPS had died. I cannot recall the last time I replaced the battery in it. The battery might be as old as 8 years when I originally bought the APC UPS. The battery is one of those typical sealed
Metric Modulation?
Um, no, I’m not talking about some mode of Ham radio RF modulation here – I’m referring to musical notation. Here’s Wikipedia’s definition. When you’re done tearing your hair out trying to make sense of that, come back here and I’ll give you my Joe Sixpack definition of metric modulation. Metric modulation in music is a change in beat structure. In our case here, it is a change in time signature while maintaining the same
Minor crisis averted
Now is a suitable time for me to take a break from entering music notation and get a post here edgewise. For starters, I was afraid my computer was “toast” due to a minor accident that happened. You see, I have this USB peripheral and… I use a StreamDeck XL for many of my music computer programs. The Stream Deck adds an immense amount of convenience to any application that is menu-click or mouse heavy.
Accidentally… paying attention
It’s time again for me to get some thoughts committed to blog concerning musical notation. When proofing a transcribed score, I tend to use a speed-reading method of comparing note position and accidental rather than the note name. Many of the instruments in a score are transposed, so if you need to identify the sounding note, the written note isn’t correct. In this example of an incorrectly transcribed bar, we’re looking at French horns which
First time contributor to IMSLP
I had a lot of fun working with and have developed a better notation workflow for my latest project – Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite (Op.20a). Swan Lake Suite is a compilation of movements from the music that Tchaikovsky wrote for the famous Swan Lake ballet. Tchaikovsky wrote to his publisher about the possibility of creating a “concert suite” version of the Swan Lake music suitable for orchestral performance, as other famous composers were also doing