Friday 7 May 2010

OK, I won't write anything about the election here, other than to say that to salvage some degree of relief or cheeriness I am clinging to the thought that without an outright majority, the glossy rubber twins Cameron and Osborne won't get to do just anything they want.

For reasons I won't explain I've been reading books on harmony here today, and I came across the term 'tonicisation' (or tonicization if you're on the other side of the pond) which was new to me. Well, I may just be in a bad mood about the election but I call bullshit on that one. Modulation I can deal with (that's changing key, folks), but tonicisation ... do come off it. I've been blessed with a largely practical musical education from the experience of music, rather than a theoretical one, and the use of terms like that encourages me to remain a musician and not a music theorist. 

Every harpsichord should have an attendant case of beer (thanks Scott).

We finally signed off the CD booklet and notes tonight, after representatives of another organisation took exception to some of what I'd written, and (very politely) demanded changes. I thought it was quite mild compared to what I could have written: see if you can guess what got changed when you buy your copy. 

Here is a little more trouble -