Is there a way to automatically generate multiple documents with a slight change in the same location with a single compile? For instance: a single compile that outputs ten different "I recommend X for <this school>" files when I give TeX a list of those schools?
The source doesn't seem to be Volkov's problematic "Testimony," and apparently there was an agent with the name Shostakovich provided who was disappeared around this time, so the evidence seems to support the story. Wow.
But I couldn't find evidence of this anywhere. I just purchased "Symphony for the City of the Dead," a book on Shostakovich and his 7th Symphony, and sure enough this story is corroborated on pp. 126–7. Of course it was the NKVD at that time, not the KGB.
A few years ago I wrote: I seem to remember a story of Shostakovich being hounded by the KGB, and told to come to their office the following Monday. Shostakovich, knowing he was about to be "disappeared," spent the weekend getting his things in order. But when he went to the KBG officer's location on Monday, he found that actually the KGB officer himself had been disappeared over the weekend, and Shostakovich was suddenly free to go back home.
@ToddWilcox The partimenti tradition has become an especially hot topic in academic music theory over the past twenty years or so. It seems utterly fascinating; I hope I can take the time to delve into it soon once I finish up a few other projects.
@Aaron Poulenc's Novelette in C major has always been a favorite, but that looks a bit long. "Des pas sur la neige" is two pages. But it sounds like it might be too easy?
But it really defined the chord-scale understanding of jazz, and although later teachers/theorists were more successful in spreading their chord-scale approaches, they ultimately all stem from Russell.
I wish 12tone had talked more about the later influence that this book had on jazz pedagogy, but it looks like that discussion is happening in the comments. That was my takeaway from the book: there are loads of systematic problems and several instances of magician hand-waving saying "here's how it is, just trust me."
@luserdroog Wow, thanks for sharing! I read Russell's book a few years ago in preparation for a seminar I was teaching, and it was...bonkers. And not always in a good way. I'm excited to watch this!
@Aaron I'm glad you found it. I would have recognized it, but also not known the piece. I hate when that happens, but it's such a relief when I find out what the piece is.
@Aaron I've made a conscious effort to be a more active voter over the past year or so, but not to the point that I've upvoted bad submissions. If you happen to come across a handful of these kinds of posts, I'd be curious to see what they are!
@Aaron I also have templates saved of common score types that are a little trickier from a coding standpoint, and that way I can just open up a template and get right to inputting the notation.
Depending on your goals and uses of notation, I've found LilyPond to be so much faster than anything else, at least for "normal" uses. I can spit out homework examples so much faster on LilyPond than I can on any other program, just because it's done all by text. That said, I assume there are keyboard shortcuts for other programs that would speed those up, but I don't know if I'd be as fast with them as I am with LilyPond.
And just out of curiosity, for the Gymnopedie, do you want the piece to sound syncopated, or should it sound like the MuseScore playback, where they're "normal" rhythms in a different tempo?
@stackExchangeUser Interesting pieces! The Für Elise may be a little tricky with some of the left hand jumps, but otherwise they're all perfectly doable, and almost sight readable for a decent pianist.
Well I hope the (current) inactivity is inspiring others to consider nominating themselves! I can think of several users I'd love to see on the ballot, frankly.
