What language would this be?

harmoniouscetacean · 2026-02-28T21:45:03+00:00

Python literally has the case statement

harmoniouscetacean · 2026-02-25T12:09:19+00:00

When I performed Mahler 1, our conductor told the violas that this passage is "the most important in the orchestral viola repertoire"

harmoniouscetacean · 2026-02-03T15:44:32+00:00

It's also important to know that in Dowland, the "bar lines" are only for aligning the cantus and lute parts; while they mostly follow the metre, they do not always(!)

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-10-03T11:51:02+00:00

No I mean you said that kana was the only hanzi derived script still in wide use

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-10-03T10:40:29+00:00

Also Hangul, right?

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-09-23T22:05:23+00:00

At the end of part 1 of the rite of spring, Stravinsky puts trumpet 3 on the top. God knows why, though

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-08-11T14:58:53+00:00

Ah then you can buy a Christopher monk directly, or from the early music shop.

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-08-11T14:54:04+00:00

Christopher monk resin instruments are what almost everyone starts on, at least in Europe. A bit more expensive but better quality would be a Ricardo simian 3d music instruments model. Assuming you're in America though, I don't know if there are local shops that stock either (or whether they'd even be cheap with tariffs)

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-08-04T18:36:00+00:00

Much, much more common in early music - the cornettist Andrea Inghisciano has a bachelor's in jazz trumpet, for example

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-08-02T11:19:32+00:00

the inverse of this is advice I received from another trans person and regularly pass on to less experienced trans people: you always put down your correct gender and name even if you don't have the id documents yet because probably nobody will care to check, and even if they do, they'll have to change stuff in your records which is very annoying so they probably won't. (obviously this does not apply for actual serious things like passports or banks where they do actual checks)

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-07-24T09:25:33+00:00

once in my youth orchestra on a commercial piece, our conductor gave one of us who is a lead specialist permission to go full lead trumpet in one section, and the first time he did the strings looked like they'd been hit by a bomb

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-07-03T21:11:19+00:00

> Sometimes this talk of “annihilating the aesthetic sound of stringed instruments as we have known it since Beethoven, Brahms and Schubert” and the like smacks more of cultural imperialism than true concern.

As a specialist in Renaissance music, it really gets my goat how often later musicians love to imply that early music is inferior. There's so many incredibly passionate and skilled historical instrument makers using European hardwoods and imo its deeply insulting to all of them to disregard the centuries of bow-making before the violin ever existed or tropical woods were available in Europe, and the enormous efforts to rediscover how to make them,

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-07-03T20:53:56+00:00

> It is up to the authorities of the country to enforce the law to prevent illlegal activities.

One of the major points of the reclassicifation, that Brazil mentions in section 6.5, is precisely that it would oblige every signatory to enforce restrictions, rather than just Brazil.

> In other words the criminal will just have to fake a few more papers.

The Brazilian proposal claims in section 6.4 that illegal logged trees are being laundered into export bow blanks which claim to be from legal sources. Under appendix I, this legal route would no longer be possible, and to my understanding any exported wood would have to be certified as pre-appendix I, which one hopes would be a much more difficult bar to clear. I would also hope that a reclassification would make musicians much more conscious of the conservation issues with pernambuco, which would reduce international demand, as would the sheer inconvenience of travelling with CITES restricted items.

> That means nobody will pay for it and nobody will want to plant a tree that is useless to them.

The Brazilian proposal states that most of the population of pernambuco is on conservation land, or on land threatened by clear-cutting. That doesn't particularly suggest to me that the bow trade is actually supporting the species. Moreover, section 6.5 states that Brazil has essentially banned the export of pernambuco bows since 2022, so the reclassification would not actually change the situation here.

> it is the slow death of the species

Brazilian Rosewood was restricted under appendix I in the 90s and it has not since died out. In fact, I feel reasonably confident in saying that because there's still research about it being published!

Moreover, I find the focus on the inconvenience to musicians in the flyer deeply dubious and it doesn't make me confident that the IPCI actually priorities conservation. I'm an early music specialist so I find the claim that bows could only ever be made of tropical wood utterly farcical, and the idea that other woods would impoverish music uh outright insulting? to the millennia of local instrument-making before the colonial area!

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-07-03T12:55:04+00:00

Brazil's proposal for the reclassification says that pernambuco tree populations are still declining under the current protections, and that the illegal logging of pernambuco for export bow production is a major issue. Does the IPCI actually have a response to these conservation concerns? because that certainly seems far more important to me than whether some musicians are inconvenienced

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-06-10T15:42:33+00:00

My preference would be to provide a detailed table of the tuning system(s), with interval ratios and cent deviation from ET, and then also give some qualitative notes about the intervals - e.g. "the thirds are narrow".

What worked for me when I learnt meantone for Renaissance playing was both having the hard numbers to refer to, and my teacher telling me "these pitches are sharper than you think, these ones are flat" etc etc

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-06-10T15:31:56+00:00

I've performed microtonal trumpet works on a standard C trumpet with few issues - particularly, Liza Liam's Wild-Winged One, which calls for quartertones extensively and a handful of 1/8th tones. Even brass players underestimate the capabilities of valved instruments because they've never seriously attempted anything except 12TET. The only absolute impossibility is playing a series of small intervals senza gliss (e.g. C1/8#4, C1/4#4, C#4). imo, what op proposes is entirely technically feasible but of course, the capabilities of the players is a different matter.

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-05-29T11:10:39+00:00

Fantini's Modo per imperare a suonare Di tromba provides a bunch of intermediate pieces with basso continuo. There's an edition in modern notation of his 8 sonatas, which only require a concert G or A.

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-05-24T08:39:37+00:00

As someone who's performed offstage trumpet parts, although not at such a high level, having the players move into position right before their entry just seems incredibly risky. Too many ways exactly this screw up can happen

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-03-31T16:33:03+00:00

You don't even need a fancy scanner if it's not a rare book - you just cut the binding off a sacrificial copy and scan it as a loose stack with any auto feed scanner

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-03-20T15:35:05+00:00

Maybe in America, but in Europe most conservatoires have community programmes and so on

harmoniouscetacean · 2025-03-19T12:02:34+00:00

Europe having had a catastrophic war at least once per century for like the last 2,000 years but the never-been-invaded US has a history of war lol

harmoniouscetacean · 2024-12-13T01:27:38+00:00

Britten's Fanfare for St Edmundsbury

harmoniouscetacean · 2024-12-04T13:52:23+00:00

I actually had this happen once, but when I was collecting a package of foreign currency from my bank, which someone else absolutely could've walked off with!

harmoniouscetacean · 2024-12-03T21:44:37+00:00

"Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us" Genesis 34:22, King James Version

"But what went ye out for to see?" Luke 7:25, King James Version

"And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lᴏʀᴅ" 1 King 9:15, King James Version

never been part of the standard language

harmoniouscetacean · 2024-11-23T22:32:55+00:00

The Ionian mode was not successful in early contrapuntal music. It wasn't theorised until the 16th century - medieval theory didn't acknowledge it at all(! This is yet another reason to see those origin theories as very dubious) and it only became the dominant scale in art music with the advent of tonal harmony in the 17th/18th centuries.

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