Classical Gas by Mason Williams is being recorded July 10-12, 2007
We found an old review: Burdick “burbled” a high note
at the beginning but settled down to produce a river of beautiful
sounds that seemed to come form everywhere. His forte low register
was assertive, clean and flexible; hus middle and upper ranges
floated on a seemingly inexhaustible stream of air. His rich tone
was smooth as silk.
Cd18 & Cd19 are
almost ready to release (August 15th 2007)
see naturalhorn.com for
more information.
Opus 51: June 15th, 2007
The recording of all four movements of the Horn quartet, opus 51
is done. I don't want to give this one away.
samples of the pieces are HERE
Opus
50: May, 19th 2007
I recorded the original version of my opus 50 Duet for two hand horns
(horn in E and G#)
I set out to revise it.
May 20th 2007
Revised the duet, the three page score is now 5 pages.
May 22nd
I had time to record half of the new version of the duet.
June 15th
I have been bust with other things, Duet will be posted today. Here
The score will be available by the end of the Summer.
Opus 144:
June 20, 2007
While I continue to make progress with this monstrous work, I keep
adding movements to the first set based on the "creative" I
Ching hexigram. This first instrumental cantata should be done
before I leave the Music-in-the-Mountians festival.
Being that this work is a set of new scale tunings, My current goal
is to complete the Meditation and choral of each of the 64 scales.
This way we will all have a sence of the tonal mood. - work in
progress
Early
May 2007
I have defined the archetypal melody for each to the eight I Ching
trigrams and platted the 64 archetypal melodies.
May 22nd 2007
the new I Ching scale system is near complete. Each scale has a
different tonal center based on the over tones 64-128, but the
system as a whole is in the key of F, with A at 432 or 27 hertz,
the center tone of F is 21.6 hertz. I took me an hour,got lost
in scale tone possiblities, but found the simple and correct
answer, for my system, the A fits in as the simple 5, so a 5:4
ratio 27/21.6 is obvious.
May 23rd 2007
I will be working on the chart of color to tone, now that I have
the exact hertz for each tone
Opus
75
Spring 2007
Seven Haiku for Horn Quartet
this work is recorded and can be heard here
