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@Robusto oh yeah it is. I watched it the other day actually. Really illuminating. Because I remember how back in high school a big deal was made of that chord, but I never understood why. But then a mere 20+ years later I watched this video and I understood why.
@Robusto and also, his practice room made me nostalgic for being in a practice room, and I've never even been in a practice room before.
I'm not sure why. It just has that certain something to it.
How midway through someone else started practicing violin in the room nearby.
It just has that certain feel that school always had.
Speaking of violins, as expected my teacher said I needed no further markings for the Mandelstam.
It was quite funny how she put it, too. She said something like, yeah that's a Russian romance alright. So you can tie it any way you please. And it'll all sound fine. Or you can just do the usual boilerplate pattern that suggests itself just from looking at the notes. And that will also work fine.
So we just quickly bowed whatever a couple times, and it sounded fine, and thus warmed up we moved on to Bach.
So with that in mind, I'm ready to let this one go for the time being and move on to the next thing. Last night I made the changes you proposed, and came up with one or two of my own.
So the current state of the draft is as follows:
> Don't ever tell anyone,
forget everything that has been:
the heron, the prison, the nun,
or really whatever you've seen...
Maybe at dawn, when by chance
you'll give voice to only one thing,
then you'll be struck all at once
by a familiar sting.
You'll remember the wasp in the park,
the pen case you had as a kid,
the poppies you always picked up,
the blueberries you never did.
Still set to private as of now, but as you said, getting it perfectly right will take twenty years anyway, or maybe forever. So I'll probably schedule it for publication in the nearest future, and then just keep revisiting it every year or so. As I always do with all my stuff anyway.
Oh, and re: violin MIDI, I just always give the voice line to some instrument of my choosing because the sound font for the human voice is only even worse. Anything but human.
Typically I'd pick the clarinet. It mimicks the human voice so well, even the most shittiest soundfont incarnation of it that you can find, it still sounds kinda sorta acceptable somehow.
But this melody here, if I gave that to the clarinet, it'd be the worst clarinet piece yet created.
The fingering is all over the place, and the sound is constantly switching between three registers. And the whole entire climax pretty much sits straight in the throat register. Ugh.
But for the violin, the ambitus couldn't be more perfect if I tried.
And also Jesus Christ does it sound gorgeous on an actual violin.
Plays really well, too. Such a joy to play.
But yeah. Ultimately it's a voice line and everything else is just me faffing about.
And it was only ever written at the piano anyway.
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