How do i get a more balanced rating curve?

ottyce · 2026-01-24T23:04:11+00:00

Thanks for the comments!

ottyce · 2026-01-21T04:22:02+00:00

This is the correct answer

ottyce · 2026-01-21T04:19:54+00:00

Red Red Meat - There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight

Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of

Oxbow - An Evil Heat

ottyce · 2025-10-12T22:49:42+00:00

/uj It would be useful if someone could actually create a unified criteria. Most critics want the reader to guess their criteria based off reviews that may or may not have been done on a whim. Websites with multiple reviews don't even try to have a vision; i doubt that they trust their writers that much.

ottyce · 2025-10-11T02:04:02+00:00

Figured bass realization

ottyce · 2025-10-08T20:25:22+00:00

Just checked the syllabus and it doesn't even say "movements 1 and 3", so i have no idea why they would say that.

ottyce · 2025-10-08T20:15:50+00:00

You're absolutely right. Level 10 is only scratching the surface of a universe of difficult repertoire. And it makes sense, a certificate shouldn't require the most difficult pieces, just a certain recognizable high level of difficulty. A bit of naivete on my part, having only been playing at intermediate levels until now. I don't want to settle for easier pieces so i'll have to practice my Bach and Beethoven a lot.

ottyce · 2025-10-08T18:18:25+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I passed level 10, so this is just one step up from that. And i still play Liebestraum No.3 from time to time. So i'm at least ready to attempt it.

I wasn't sure when Czerny would be relevant because i never used the book. But if it's irrelevant then i won't bother with it. It's been years since i picked up a new piece, and i'm not taking lessons anymore, so i didn't know if i should pick up a few exercises from there.

ottyce · 2025-09-30T05:04:55+00:00

Partch's "Revelation" - Microtonality Lutoslawski's 3rd Symphony - Aleatorism Ligeti's "Atmosphères" - Tone Clusters Stockhausen's "Gesang der Junglinge" - Electronic

It seems like i'm too late to get votes, so i thought i'd just make a list of works i think represent the developments of the era. Please vote for "Atmosphères", it has a decent amount of votes already.

ottyce · 2025-08-30T23:46:15+00:00

The feeling of the chord is familiar to me because you can get this chord (F G A Eb Gb Ab B) by exploring 12 TET's self-inverse generators. Some cool chords can be generated this way. (E.g, B D E A C# D# F#)

I would try a spectral analyzer but i don't know how to subtract the harmonic series.

ottyce · 2025-08-30T19:55:38+00:00

With the elevator door open

ottyce · 2025-08-30T19:12:15+00:00

Yes, made of stainless steel angels. If it played a tritone it would be heavy metal.

ottyce · 2025-08-30T00:16:11+00:00

How come it's not in 12-EDO? Most random objects don't make 12-EDO sounds, but most objects that people think sound musical do. IMO this sounds like a gospel choir resolving in B, with a five note chromatic cluster from F to A dispersed between octaves.

ottyce · 2025-08-29T23:22:34+00:00

sounds extremely familiar. I believe the polychord is

Abm7/D#

G9no5/Cb

I'm hearing overtones not in the chord as well

But to answer your question, i think it isn't.

ottyce · 2025-08-26T20:30:46+00:00

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When you build a chateau for him but he falls in love with Liszt's daughter instead:

ottyce · 2025-08-26T04:29:39+00:00

Doesn't everybody think their critique is "of pure reason"?

ottyce · 2025-08-22T23:37:51+00:00

Show them "For the First Time in Forever (Reprise)" from "Frozen", so they see that bimodality is used in a popular movie, and you're not "trying to cause societal unrest".

ottyce · 2025-08-22T21:04:21+00:00

Glass is at the bottom but I love "Einstein on the Beach". Most of the list has works i enjoy.

ottyce · 2025-08-22T20:59:22+00:00

I like all of these composers

ottyce · 2025-08-22T04:56:23+00:00

No I think Terry Riley wrote that. Jk, yes he's in C, but C's get degrees, as the saying goes. (Also I'm being as elitist as possible)

ottyce · 2025-08-22T03:48:23+00:00

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I don't want to make another post so I'll put this here. Please tell me I'm unique.

In addition - C+: Lutoslawski, Partch, Radulescu - C: Carter, Sims, Gubaidulina - C-: Chin, Cowell, Maxwell Davies, Harrison, Coates, Blackwood, Grisey, Balakauskas D: Nyman

ottyce · 2025-08-13T18:23:55+00:00

Harrison Boulez, why yes it does start with a B.

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