New Composition

I have added two new files to the music player (Located on the bottom of the right column).
The piece is Clarinet Sonata in C that took me around a year to write. The first movement moves attacca into the second with the third taking up the second file. It was performed at the clarinettist’s recital, and lasts just over 15 minutes.

Underrated or unfamous No.2

Unfamous Composer: Georges Onslow [Wikipedia article]
Born in France where he lived his entire life, son of an English Father. and French Mother, Onslow was reagarded by many composers as in the same class as mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. He was admired by Schubert and Beethoven. Although a large number of his output was devoted to String Chamber music, he did compose a variety of pieces for other genres including four symphonies and four operas

Underrated Piece: Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 7 [Wikipedia article]
Both Performers and Audience were confused by the work at its Premier conducted by the Composer. It is one of Mahler’s least performed works. Piece is dark, schattenhaft (shadowy) and grotesque: it is not exactly ‘pleasant’ listening. However, the piece certainly maintains spectacular orchestral colours we are accustomed to in Mahler; interesting, but dissonant chromatic harmonies – Sweet and beautiful, yet cruel and harsh -, the pieces melodies are angular, yet they remain memorable. In between the darker areas of the Symphony are moments of infinite serenity. These Pastoral moments hark back to his 6th symphony through direct reference to its Cowbells.

Underrated or unfamous No.1

Restoration of the IMSLP

The IMSLP is well on its way to restoration, although exact timeframes are yet to be put in place. Involved in the revival will be the incorporation of a non-profit IMSLP Foundation (Name not yet disclosed – suggestions appreciated) in the US.

The original MediaWiki main site is currently up and running, however it is only accessible to Administrators for the purpose of copyright tagging.

Feldmahler (the IMSLP’s owner):

“* 22 January 2008 – The roadmap for the revival of IMSLP has been set. Like all good things, this may take a while, but we will persevere. The revival of IMSLP involves the incorporation of a non-profit IMSLP Foundation (exact name not decided yet, though we do have one in mind; do feel free to suggest one if you think of any) in the US. Because of this, help on the following points would be much welcome:

1. Files public domain in Canada but not the US do not need to be removed; however, accurate tagging of US public domain status is crucial. This especially goes for files tagged “Verified” or “Checked” prior to the splitting of the copyright tag into three jurisdictions; these files are currently tagged V/U/U (Verified/Unknown/Unknown) or C/U/U by default.
2. I welcome any and all help with either non-profit incorporation (in the US and Canada) or non-profit corporate maintenance (taxes, accounting, etc) offered, or even just any suggestions or words of wisdom (preferably from prior experience). Any help with obtaining charity status is also very welcome.

* In other news, I finally won the battle with my laptop (who wants to retire), and will be uploading IMSLP v0.7 soon, most notably with the newly designed multi-file template Smile Had finished it before Christmas, but never got a chance to upload it.„

There are still a number of free PD score archives available and accessible until the return of the IMSLP

Source A and B

A few questions

I would like to address you, the reader: is there anything that you would like to be added, removed or changed to/from/in this site? I’m interested because I want to make this place as pleasant and informative as possible.

• More frequent posts?
  • On music analysis?
  • On Copyright?
  • On Music in general?
  • On Basic musical news?
• More Links?
• More of my music (mp3)?
• More interaction? – (Shoutbox/Forum)
• More music related pictures?
• Less Pictures/No pictures?
• Gadgets?

In a related question, what could I do to encourage [in site] comments to be made?

I am seriously interested in any responses you can give.

Contact can be either email, or comments under this post.