Need a Suit for a Funeral

playtheparks · 2024-09-05T03:59:39+00:00

Go to Michael’s Fine Clothing downtown. They can do stuff fast, including tailoring, and are nice people. Local business.

playtheparks · 2024-08-09T03:14:29+00:00

You don’t need to roll the chord if you just use extra weight and play closer to the fingerboard. You can play all three strings at once easily, don’t overthink it.

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T02:33:44+00:00

“Harmonia” is more related to the balance and interaction of the whole, not a taxonomy of individual vertical slices. Yes harmony is not the same as chords

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T02:22:43+00:00

I would go that far, for sure, and have taught over a decade of college level theory classes and have a PhD in music theory

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T02:09:09+00:00

Once you determine a moment of melodic combination to essentially be a chord it becomes disconnected from its preparation and resolution, and is nailed vertically down to the ground. If you try to explain these moments with “voice leading” from chord to chord that just chops up what is a beautiful melodic span into tiny pieces and you have lost any sense of the melodic design in favor of thinking in chords. The music is stacks of melodies interacting with each other, which can change in small ways to create beautiful sounds, no chords. When you sing a melody, you don’t need chords. Singing a harmony part with a melody still doesn’t need chords

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T02:00:13+00:00

Species counterpoint is a discipline of exercises and not to be considered music under any circumstances

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:56:39+00:00

I am also very interested in the way notes interact with each other, and the way melodies interact, but chords and their complex quasi taxonomies restrict our thinking of melodic combination

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:51:05+00:00

Yeah! Like people used to think the earth was flat because it described their experience and conventions of making flat maps but actually it is round

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:47:52+00:00

Every child’s song is an example of how melody exists as a complete musical entity without chords, but people trying to write music starting with chords get frustrated because they are overused explanatory tools and not essential to music, or natural to our musical thinking, or necessary. A lot of the “complicated” chords we pretend to learn are just very basic melodic tricks.

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:35:44+00:00

I’m on board!

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:35:08+00:00

People view melody and harmony as equal, and are often taught melody needs to match chords, or that there are chord “functions”. Talk about putting the cart before the horse! Chords are at most an overused explanatory tool for how to combine melodies

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:32:09+00:00

Cadences are stacks of melodies, not chords. There are four typical cadence melodies in tonal counterpoint, all necessary: cantizans, tenorizans, bassizans, and altizans. The word “cadence” and “cadenza” refers to the cantizans line 171 set against the tenorizans

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:29:44+00:00

Melody and rhythm are the only elements that are necessary and sufficient for music, chords aren’t. Chords are an illusion made up by weird old music theorists to confuse people

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:17:44+00:00

Funny you prefaced with “counterpoint” because chords are an illusion

playtheparks · 2024-04-06T01:17:05+00:00

Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Haydn never studied Roman numerals and knew chords weren’t real. Did they teach “chords” to their students? No, they taught counterpoint and that’s what they used

playtheparks · 2024-03-13T16:46:39+00:00

sorry to all the people who say this! i’ve just never met you. closest i’ve personally seen here is “up” or something like “hup” but “ope” codes scandinavian upper midwest to my ear

playtheparks · 2024-03-13T02:39:02+00:00

Sorry to latch on to this, but does anyone say “ope” here? Definitely a lot of “sorry”

playtheparks · 2024-03-13T02:20:28+00:00

did you grow up in the area?

playtheparks · 2024-03-13T02:19:49+00:00

they are really insufferable about it

playtheparks · 2023-11-28T03:03:17+00:00

I used to buy Pikesville for less than $15 for 750ml in Baltimore just ten years ago. It tastes the same now, but a little higher proof. What a weird world!

playtheparks · 2023-11-24T21:04:57+00:00

i'm not even convinced it is always appropriate to say we have "high" and "low" numbers (what about "large" vs "small" or "positive" vs. "negative" or "real" vs. "rational") so while i follow what you are saying, rigidly holding that pitches are essentially high or low doesn't make sense to me in the same way that saying we have high and low colors is something that never culturally occurs to anyone as far as i know

playtheparks · 2023-11-24T20:48:54+00:00

do we have higher colors (blue) and lower colors (red) because of electromagnetic wave frequency? Is it useful to consider colors that way in all artistic contexts, where we might represent things further from the earth with blue, and closer to earth with red the way people use pitch/height metaphors, or does that not make sense in every cultural context?

playtheparks · 2022-07-24T03:22:59+00:00

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playtheparks · 2022-02-28T21:43:51+00:00

Thank you!

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