Comments on: The Spirit Flows http://www.neuemusic.com/index.php/archive/the-spirit-flows/ all things tom Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:17:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5 by: Jeremy http://www.neuemusic.com/index.php/archive/the-spirit-flows/#comment-25 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 10:39:34 -0600 http://www.neuemusic.com/index.php/archive/the-spirit-flows/#comment-25 This is great Tom. It has a kind of majestic quality to it. I just played Sondheim's "Being Alive" for a friend at an audition, and this song reminded me of it somehow. Being simple when you write definitely isn't bad. It's just a characteristic of your style.. It can be good because it makes each note that much more important. Playing through it I had to pay attention to all the little nuances. I especially like the chord at m. 59, and the "No Pedal" marking at the beginning (awwww, Tom!) This is great Tom. It has a kind of majestic quality to it. I just played Sondheim’s “Being Alive” for a friend at an audition, and this song reminded me of it somehow.

Being simple when you write definitely isn’t bad. It’s just a characteristic of your style.. It can be good because it makes each note that much more important. Playing through it I had to pay attention to all the little nuances.

I especially like the chord at m. 59, and the “No Pedal” marking at the beginning (awwww, Tom!)

]]> by: tomjnsn http://www.neuemusic.com/index.php/archive/the-spirit-flows/#comment-26 Fri, 22 Jul 2005 11:05:10 -0600 http://www.neuemusic.com/index.php/archive/the-spirit-flows/#comment-26 Thanks for playing it through Jeremy, glad you liked it. I'm wondering if some of the nuances you mentioned would be better lined out by me by notating them? I know I come from a heavy jazz background so some of my dialect, musically speaking, has a different accent that I'm hearing in the notes than say a classical musician might interpret. Point in case is the way that Joshua wrote the lyrics. On the first phrase before the lyrics I kept hearing it as being two bars long exactly and when you got to the third measure it was the beginning of a new phrase. Josh wrote the lyrics so that the phrase actually continues into the first note of the next measure. I had thought about putting in phrase markings to indicate where I heard the phrases starting and stopping but didn't. I guess in this situation the change was an interesting surprise that I don't think changed what I intended. Anyway if you have specific ideas about certain notations that might help bring out some of the nuances better I'm all ears. Thanks for playing it through Jeremy, glad you liked it. I’m wondering if some of the nuances you mentioned would be better lined out by me by notating them? I know I come from a heavy jazz background so some of my dialect, musically speaking, has a different accent that I’m hearing in the notes than say a classical musician might interpret.

Point in case is the way that Joshua wrote the lyrics. On the first phrase before the lyrics I kept hearing it as being two bars long exactly and when you got to the third measure it was the beginning of a new phrase. Josh wrote the lyrics so that the phrase actually continues into the first note of the next measure. I had thought about putting in phrase markings to indicate where I heard the phrases starting and stopping but didn’t. I guess in this situation the change was an interesting surprise that I don’t think changed what I intended.

Anyway if you have specific ideas about certain notations that might help bring out some of the nuances better I’m all ears.

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