Playlist

Preface

"Conflict between what's relevant to the substance of what you've done and what gets it public attention is poignant."

- Benjamin Boretz "2: (META)"  from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020

Texts

Streaming

Wayward in Limbo

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.

- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.

July 24, 2021

the picture I drew for Carol and Susie

Carol J. Levin and Susie Kozawa

I drew a picture for Carol and Susie

Recorded

July 24, 2021

Sonata in E Major, Hob. XVI.13 - Franz Joseph Haydn - Christine Schornsheim

If there is a relation between phrase/figure A and phrase/figure B
then it has a dual nature
first its existence as an experienced comparison of an ongoing event with a memory
and then its existence as a developing memory of two memories
these phrases are designed both to facilitate and overwhelm that process

Fantasia in D minor, K. 397 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mitsuko Uchida

long sad waiting
with pangs and worry 

better in the sunny busy morning
until nightfall or sleep

July 25, 2021

Sonata in G Major, Op. 31 #1 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Artur Schnabel

activating pulse
giving it a body
that it may grow
returning again and again to familiar ground
by various interpolated routes
some sunny
some dark
some brave views

My Dinner with Wallace - Keith Eisenbrey and Aaron Keyt - Keith Eisenbrey

Aaron and I will be posting these 9 short music and video files for public enjoyment sometime in the next month or so. It consists of recordings I made last Summer of compositions by Aaron and me, paired with various visual elements. At the heart of it are the 12 books of Aaron's Music for Wallace and my 12 Chorales, bookended by Aaron's Hedgehogs and my Frankie and Johnny. Wallace was a spinet piano that lived with Aaron and Jennifer while they were living in Somerville, Massachusetts, and serves as the muse of the project.

first reel
hedgehogs introduce some poetical index thoughts
images provide a context for thought
an icon first
Wallace the muse
then motion
trees sunlight
West of Kautz Creek in Mount Rainier National Park
glimpsed sky
the Chorale remains motionless
second reel
image a creek
on the trail to Cape Alava in Olympic National Park
dense tangles of foliage and reflections
still water reveals and reflects
Chorale image
fir yielding to strong wind and gray sky skudding by
blue sky image with dark clouds
only possible in The West
on the highway between Ellensburg and Yakima
third reel
green maple tree
in our back yard
gray sky
more wind
Cape Alava itself
image trees low gray sky ocean
meets shallow shores
back to the backyard tree
maple green giant
fourth reel
bright sky
side of Little Tahoma
from Burroughs Mountain in Mount Rainier National Park
Chorale
image same maple tree
dark and gray
infest with Locust
hanging chain
rocks image
blue bright sky
side of First Burroughs
fifth reel
from in the car
on the road down from Paradise
we acknowledge our mover
image canyon cliff
at Crater Lake National Park
sunlight
Chorale
sunlight on a manufactured rock formation
our backyard sidewalk
with action provided by the maple tree above
sixth reel
image rocks snow cloud shadowed sunlight
Carbon Glacier at Mount Rainier
Chorale

green leaves sunlight
what the little plants tell me
all mankind must perish
image old train
at the Railroad Museum in Toppenish, Washington,
gray sky light 5000
sixth reel
Chorale is the making of feature
Federation Forest State Park
is its own image
seventh reel
tiny plants
tiny white water
in the upper White River drainage in Mount Rainier National Park
Chorale
corn and gladiolas
our backyard
shadow puppets on the fence
eighth reel
lower slopes of Mount Rainier
near Paradise
Chorale
back to gray skies
wind
and preaching stalker trees
image Hayden Valley
in Yellowstone National Park
sky trees water grass
bands of blue and green
last reel
Chorale
shadow clouds below Mount Fremont
in Mount Rainier National Park
image leaves and their sunshine
Ravenna Park, Seattle
from the 20th Avenue foot bridge
Frankie and Johnny
from the car window
driving down from Sunrise
in Mount Rainier National park
below morning
corner in text
matches turning the Sunrise Point corner in video

July 26, 2021

Etude in E Major, Op. 10 #3 - Frédéric Chopin - Alfred Cortot [1933]

careful sequential revelation of melody's ambitus and roundness
alt harmony
alt universe
alt consciousness
alt key

Selection 7 from Selections from The Nutcracker - Piotr Ilyich Tchakovsky - Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy

giving the winds the jobs strings used to do
(accompanimental figures)

4 Preludes, Op. 22 - Alexander Scriabin - Michael Ponti

the key is the spirit that lives here
or did at times upon times
passions intact as presence

{from my journal entry of February 29, 2004 - Ponti certainly has the color and mercurial essence but doesn't follow the long long phrases as notated in my edition and they are extremely long which leads me to wonder whether that wasn't half of what Scriabin was after}

Pelleas et Melisande, Act IV - Claude Debussy - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, Camille Maurane, Chorus of the Grand Théâtre, Geneva, Erna Spoorenberg, George London, Hoekman, Veasey, Brady, Shirley-Quirk

this act will out
it won't be good to see
it plunges right down
senza ritornello non regardez

When You Ain't Got No  Money You Needn't Come Around - May Irwin [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

woman's voice singing a story
told from a man's point of view
tempo flexes with the storytelling
trigger alert for multiple racist epithets unironically used

Battle of San Juan Hill - Mike Bernard [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

Byrd wrote a battle too
this one could be news reel playalong
tone clusters??!!
in 1912!!!
like the thunder effects in French organ music they were in the air all over and had been for some time

July 27, 2021

Canary Cottage - Frisco Jazz Band [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

brothelic euphemism
we play fast
such party
exhausting

Ameriques - Edgard Varèse - New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez

America as the dark continents
written by Europa
coded alienation
the clothes here don't fit my skin
echoes of Rite of Spring primitivism
as yet another overlay
one of hundreds
the undigested continents

Black Bottom Stomp - Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers [from Chicago Days]

just about as much frenetic dancing as can be packed on a 78 rpm side

Long Tall Mama - Big Bill Broonzy [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

bragging blues "make a poor man leave his home" "freight train jump her track"

Symphony in D minor (#5) - Dmitri Shostakovich - U.S.S.R. Symphony Orchestra, Maksim Shostakovich

that inimitable Melodiya in your face engineering
the just
or
word matter orders not
here comes the machine state
Tchaikovsky's evil twin
misread as strength
Americans had Symphonic Envy
DS must have been flabbergasted
big tune science laid bare
Nationalist end game
that is
however it must be said
a ferociously fun timpani part
for a punk nerd teen to play
D Major Glory Land badge achieved
so socialist so realist

July 28, 2021

Ev'rything I Love - Peggy Lee [from The Complete Recordings 1941-1947]

certainly everything the 40s man wanted to hear
soft and smooth

Duett-concertina - Richard Strauss - Staatskappele Dresden, Rudolf Kempe, Manfred Weise, Wolfgang Liebscher

how it floats on billows of air
Sancho comments from the road
floating billows
hears what is wanted to be heard
just dinking around
with what became of the vaunted music of the facile future
lost in fairy dust land

String Quartet - Irving Fine - Lydian Quartet

1
it twists and whips
pulled taut
tent walls in high wind
something constrained
corseted nervous exact 

2
how many directions are
in
from this immovable stasis
doorless
the comfortable is lava
walk
on the sharp ice only

Red Hot - Billy Lee Riley [from Sun Records Definitive Hits]

clever metrical game
the play between

"my gal is red hot
||
you're gal ain't dood'ly squat"

big accent
on the and of four
on "you're"
as the contradiction overshouts the statement

You Don't Miss Your Water - William Bell [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

I was bad
I'll do better
or wish it weren't too late
greeting card size

Funky Broadway - Wilson Picket [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

alternate meaning
alternate metrical placements
for dancing alternate qualifiers
could go on and on

Trio for Guitar, Violin and Piano - Arthur Berger - Joel Smirnoff, David Starobin, Gilbert Kalish

proceeds like a set of short variations
overlapping
pulling back
to reveal those that had moved sideways
as in
turn this sound sideways
and hear what was doing
over there
or will be
or have been

July 29, 2021

("...my chart shines high where the blue milks upset...") - Benjamin Boretz - Keith Eisenbrey [live at the Chapel Performance Space June 5, 2010]

Keith Eisenbrey · Benjamin Boretz - ("...my chart shines high where the blue milks upset...") (100605)

Ben was in the audience
pressure was on
I play once again the piece that changed my life
here about as well as I ever will
perhaps
the delicate balance between continuity and immediacy
build
evaporate
rebuild
return 

July 30, 2021

Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

did they do a dance move
on the grunty ooh aahs

as I understand it
a sincere song
with an unfortunate moral disequivalence to Slavery Part 2

Cantus (8701xx) partial - Keith Eisenbrey - Fehrwood Ensemble

my 1987 composition in rehearsal
before I added the clicking sticks
for mixed recorder ensemble 

foghorn sounds and hailing signals
what would a midified realization sound like?
leisurely accumulation of what will be a tune episode
love the open sound of the recorders
and the just so difference in timbre
among the different sizes
as they match pitch
partial because the tape ran out

String Quartet 4 - Berthold Goldschmidt - Mandelring Quartet

a long
lingering
post Romantic
hold out
more like Shostakovich's quartets in temperament
than like Schoenberg's or Berg's

curled
in a dark apartment
clutching the last bottles
of common practice
beset
by a contrapuntal conscience
he does speak this language
fluently no doubt of that

the tattered standard of Max Reger
still flapping on a strange world

Banned Rehearsal 447 - Isaac E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Anna K, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [March 1, 1997]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 447 970301

we begin by adjusting our instruments as furniture
clarinet piano electric guitar drums a brass instrument
my guess is Aaron Neal me Anna? who? Karen?
may be must be wrong at least partly
an orchestral din
I think Isaac is complaining
but sounds pretty great at this remove
everything transpires with ears open
but pretty loud
I think Neal is playing both piano and the brass instrument
cornet most likely
Karen may be on drums
with Anna providing light percussion
a profound rumble and squealing winds
Isaac does complain
which fits right in
and is a righteous complaint
violin takes up a cause
exhausted we scatter ourselves about to recover
The Mighty W
a highly dinnish session
and the Funmaker soldiers on
to pick up our drunken spirits
we adjust back
in our snoring sounds 

we may be falling into a sound sleep

{from my journal entry of November 22, 2004 - opens as much more of an explosion. And the Kingsbury piano makes its debut? or is that just the guitar sounding distinctly pianistic? I don't think so. It really is the piano so that other Sonic Brilliance unmarked (tape) was probably made this evening Fabulously maudlin performance the Wurlitzer adding a touch of daytime TV to the emotional mix Funmaker cuts across and pulls many along with. dissolves into its constituent parts. and den [?sic] to an exquisite ppp segment lovely and delicate}

Postscripts

::Consult the Oracle

sound in mine and jubilation forth and

cause to sound mysteries speaking love is

perfect show means with creatures that are in

Reality Check::

iris ask'd

solstice into

open olive lakes

Playlist

Preface

"Music, as it has been said, is poetry. Music theory, too often, treats it as prose - or, more specifically, as inverted metadiscourse. But consider music theory's problem: how do you convey the specificities of a composed poetry in metalinguistic paraphrase or schematic abstraction or by logical-definiential reconstruction, other than by paraphrastically re-poiesifying and thereby recommitting rather than explicating the creative act?"

- Benjamin Boretz "2: (META)"  from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020

Texts

Streaming

Wayward in Limbo

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.

- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.

July 17, 2021

Torch 
Torch Quartet: Brian Kai Chin, trumpet, Eric Likkel, Clarinet; Bonnie Whiting, vibes & percussion; Steve Schermer, bass

Lightbearer (2021), by Nansi Caroll
Hearing Troublesome Creek (2021), by Bonnie Whiting
Three Dances (2020), by Ed Castro
1 – Vitrics
2 – Vocalise
3 – Deconstructed Merengue

1
in what might be
or passes as
a familiar ilk of pitchthink
not far removed
in ilkhood
from my own
post late Stravinsky counterpoint
with twirty birds throughout
real birds
real twirting

2
cyclic shush like distant engine
paper texture
upon which splats splots and bwoops chirp
under which an evening chorale is sung
so pretty
shush less like an engine
than like splashing water

3.1
cooperative music
each part out of each other's part's space
but pulling together as needed
for special projects
they don't interrupt each other
nor choke with contrapuntal posturing
the twirt bird persists

3.2
this is another evening color
with trees and cooling air
fine indeed

3.3
time to get up
party's started
twist your torso
midparts dance
don't get too vigorous
or you'll miss
the little winks
flapper lines
swoopy verticals
hips angled to floor
shoulders angled to hips
dapper hats

July 23, 2021

Jonathan Way

Forest Floor:
1 Above Duwamish Head in the Clarmar Woods 108 ft elev.
2 Above Ruby Arm west of Panther Cr - 2,000 ft elev
3 South slopes of Crooked Bum above the Bridge Cr drainage - 5,300-5,600 ft elev

sticks leaves birds scrape shuffle caw crickle crack
cars and trucks persistent background roar
tires on pavement
this is an extremely busy critter
quick as a squirrel
but never stops
new locale?
new roar
some banging and fresh twigs
new location?
more shushy sort of highway here
some critter is chomping twigs
or perhaps a herd of chomping critters
kplu(n)k
hushed road
cricketty froggy top layer of sound
a bug goes by (fly)
somebody is splashing
gentler rhythms to start
evening
morning
a second day
we'll walk over here
place is event
attitude of ear is event
this bird has much say

Recorded

July 17, 2021

Pelleas et Melisande, Act III - Claude Debussy - Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet, Camille Maurane, Chorus of the Grand Théâtre, Geneva, Erna Spoorenberg, George London, Hoekman, Veasey, Brady, Shirley-Quirk

the time ticks along
dilating as it falls
into surging moments
hang and tumble
 || P regards M / G regards P and M, warns P / P regards M / regards P by proxy
 || Regardez!
descent to the low places
in the dark
by the sea
caves and wells and grottos
a sodden drama
fresh air at last
!!
youth
!
Golaud speaks with heavy suspicion
Pelleas with open heart and shining face
Melisande with bottomless simplicity
Golaud uses Yniold as a sounding board
for his own suspicion
threads of melody woven throughout
pulling times together
|| Regardez!

Nonpareil - Scott Joplin - William Albright

charm more than wit
the global squareness is a given
within which clever arrangement can give breathing room
as long as no resistance is made to the global squareness

Altenberg Lieder, Op. 4 - Alban Berg - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez, Halina Lukomska

what the singer sings is only what escapes
the fierce tangle in which we presume a key might be found
the voice of a lyric poem confounds itself with its text
who speaks?
the text or a speaker from within the text?

Riff Johnson's Harmony Band - Gene Greene [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

the lyrics are an advertisement for a type of social music
in the guise of an advertisement for a specific band
spirited

Symphony No. 5, Op. 50 - Carl Neilsen - Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt

1
tremolo steps back and then steps forward
to mark the section ends
or changes color
until timpani et al take over
a similar but more heavy handed role
eventually the slight presence of a constant timekeeping figure
becomes a lurking presence throughout
we're never without it for long
even when attenuated
|||
the old music we remember so fondly
take deep breaths friends
we may not have this with us again soon
trouble approaches
our respite was brief
hold to it lads!

2
big celebration prep work
the nagging concerns as we remember
keep watch in the night
we'll keep ourselves occupied
with a game of fugal chess
timpani spells trouble
uh oh
it may get out of hand

July 18, 2021

String Trio, Op. 20 - Anton Webern - members of the Juilliard String Quartet

maximally efficient hyperexpression
we know from analysis and reflection
that music as a signal
is a process in time
but from within it
within an experience of it
the experience of any now
can be outside the realm of procession
this metaphor is no more an illusion
than progress along a track is

If You See My Saviour - Thomas A. Dorsey [from Goodbye, Babylon]

"I was standing / by the dead side / of a neighbor"
says 'said' to nearly rhyme with say way day

Blue Ridge Mountain Blues - Vernon Dalhart (from Evans 78s)

with at least two fiddles
more ragtime feel than blues

Not a Care in the World - Peggy Lee [from The Complete Recordings 1941-1947]

it occurs to me
that the "old Queen of Russia"
maybe
should have had a care in the world
odd comparison

Symphony for Wind Instruments - Igor Stravinsky - Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Edo DeWaart

a sequential harmony of instrumental figuration
colors
regions of them
pass
composing the means to the clarity of the ends
so that there is no mismatch
and nothing left over

Ain't No More - Texas Melody Boys [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

the squeeze box sure gives a Cajun feel to it

It Won't Happen with Me - Jerry Lee Lewis [from Rare and Rockin']

he never misses a chance to put the leer in each lyric

Bone Jesu - Unattributed - The Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [April 10, 1962]

whoever wrote this had some voice leading chops
nicely sung

Cross My Heart - Billy Stewart

every inch Vegas ready

Three Irish Songs - The Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey [from Betty's Picks]

recording quality is surprisingly good

July 20, 2021

Teach Me Master - Brady 'Doc' and Lucy Barnes and others [from The Art of Field Recording, Volume 1]

that is an otherschooled voice
rhythmically dead on
internalized bedrock

Book of Windows, (cassette) Side A - Keith Eisenbrey - Jill Borner, Keith Eisenbrey, Bruce Huber [recorded in a common area at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, August 4, 1982]

a theory of what a score can be
an extremely generous tempo
ears to the ground
pay mind to each and every where
that you are at
another way to do this
would be to do portions only
at this tempo
the whole is invisible
over too many horizons
to be experienced as anything but an ordeal
(other than an)
my lesson for myself was about
patterns cyclicity structural resonance phasing
what nonpop minimalism might be
if rethought from a maximalist mindset
virulently non-engaging

Kali - John Rahn

particles
circling into the suck
of signalless,
the stories of several valiant

Banned Rehearsal 292 -John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [May 1, 1992]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 292 920501

a rattle a bell a babble a brass
a buzzoo
must be Toad Hall
since there is a piano
and we did not yet have the Kingsbury
but would we have taken the plowwheel out?
{NB apparently so, heavy as it is}
seems extreme to be traveling with a plowwheel
and diaper bags
and all
must indeed be Toad Hall
 since Aaron answered the phone
J fusses
Aaron and Keith contend
the mood
 babble is the lingo of the hour
tuba oompa
the tuba of doom
by definition tubas build character
hauling them up hills
we drum
now hoot and babble
good moments now and then
but lazy
playing pretend music
a difficult doldrum to self-extricate from

July 21, 2021

In Waking - unknown artist [a Rescued Record, un-labeled 7" 45rpm]

It might be this one - memory fails

trying poetry to describe a process
coming out into something
cross culture echo
the release of fingers
from guitar strings
at end
and
lifting of fingers
 from harpsichord keys
at end
same gesture

Track 5 - unknown amateur ensemble [from Eisenbrey 2002, a private recording of Betty Eisenbrey]

Schumann or more likely Brahms piano quartet slow movement

an - An Auf [from An Auf]

waiting space for keyboard chords
nibbled at by alien messages

Gramma's In the Cellar - Your Mother Should Know [live at Prospect United Church of Christ, February 4, 2012]

prepare to be disgusted
even has a stove oven theme to it
a crowd pleaser

This Is the End - Lures [from There's No Pressure]

tricky - how to compose and balance guitars bass drums with a baritone vocal
gets clogged

July 22, 2021

The Quadran Pavan, Variation of The Quadran Pavan, Galiard to The Quadran Pavan - John Blow - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

portions of imitations passed from voice to voice
whose games run off on their own
oblivious to the main show
ornaments are coy dissonance
it's so cool that we can use thirds now
they're nifty
keyboard scores were the newest gadget
collectors loved them
so fashionable

Symphoniae sacrae II "Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener im Friede fahren", Op. 10 #12 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana

every line of the poem is a minicomposition
a new page
each word separately considered

Suite in E minor, BuxWV 235 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

with a delicate lutish stop
una corda
Cage did not invent the prepared keyboard
proof again that music is magic of the first order
the only characters left standing here
are you and it

In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Michael Chapuis

find the bee

is his version less weird than mine?
(ok now it's your turn)
this is one crazy piece
yowza

Quanterzieme Ordre (la) - François Couperin - Michael Gilbert, Martha Brickman

among other joys
the gentle play between bass line and melody complex
and internal figures
the 3rd movement starts out ahead of itself
canonic as necessary
no more

Sonata in G Major, Kk. 125 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

running commentary on a running commentary
do try to keep up

Sonata in D Major, Wq. 62.13 - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach - Michal Spanyi

we'll take our time on this
measuring carefully
note how thus measuring we curve the distances
but when we come round again we're at another tangent
in 2 he makes excellent use of the clavichord's reverby ring hang time
short sharp chords that disappear and don't

In Session at the Tintinabulary

July 19, 2021

Banned Rehearsal 1030 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1030 210719

We gather on the porch and Neal hurls segments of severed limbs at the pavement.

Postscripts

::Consult the Oracle

doing their own spiritually

sad weak discouraged will gratifying

such lack of fear communion as a result

Reality Check::

drifting away on a seaweed covered surfboard

through his left hand as orange

the cat sleeping on my ankles

Playlist

Preface

"Given the nature and purpose of an expressive art form, 'proof' of any hypothesis is inappropriate and inapplicable."

- Benjamin Boretz "[to Robert Gross on O]"  from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020

Texts

Streaming

Wayward in Limbo

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.

- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.

July 10, 2021

Ben McAllister

Call
Index Study – Pulses
Bach BMV 358
Index Study – Respiration
Carmina Chromatico (Orlando DiLasso, from Prophetiae Sibyllarum)
Index Study – What happens when the beat drops
Land Bridge Approach
Piano Smells Ok
The Rock
Ascending Injected
Mandala Drafts

chorale tune
(I've done some work in that field too.) 

investigating
keeping eyes peeled
(this dude's into polyphony) 

nothing hangs out for long
theme and variations style
from that standpoint
they seem to run
(so far)
in an affectual double sequence:
one sequence is of spaced out legato chorale type
the other of a more motoric figuration oriented typed
the motoric figurational type is more exploratory
in and through its moments
than globally structured from outside its moments
loopish without being structured as loops
as a principal
this one sounds like the opening of some poppish prog song
but instead of proceeding to song
as dictated by sales team
confines composing
to the emerging figures
within its own proto-urgencies

the sequence of types alluded to above
has vanished
apparently an ephemera
this sound almost sounds like a Crumar

July 16, 2021

Lu Evers Trio - Lu Evers, Amy Denio, Matty Noble

Red Leaf
Crawdad Pool
Eve  6

1 a tonal rhythmic image
is constructed / emerges / floats in / dawns
(none right none wrong)
is inhabited
how does it feel
try the furniture 

any usefulness is entirely personal
to each
and to their shared living

2 let's all get in the van and see where it goes

3 why isn't the sky moving with us
are we on this side or that
what was the birth
of this will be

examine intently
discuss cryptically

Recorded

July 11, 2021

LWS Selections - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, JoAnne Deacon [December 1967]

starts with that dona nobis pacem round
in the hymnal
but in a fancier arrangement
a political statement?
this was 67 after all
of course since it's in Latin
it can be ignored 

another Latin selection
a setting of Veni creator spiritus
ah and This Little Babe
it was either a "serious" themed concert
or Mom picked the serious numbers out of it 

there's one with a violin duet
I don't think that it would have been Mom,
she hadn't played violin for a while at that point
(picked it up again later)
this is recorded/transferred more successfully than many of those tapes were

July 11-12, 2021

Momente Europa Version 1972 - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Chorus and Members of Symphony Orchestra of Radio Cologne, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Martina Arroyo, Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky

a most unwelcoming welcome mat
piles it on
one thing after another
the sonic and structural imagination is impressive
the theatricality has a certain Partchian concreteness to it
I'm just not convinced by the music
or the drama 

he composes the sounds as harshly as possible
unfriendly
the declamation is flat and shouty as a rule
::
spliced together tape piece
produced live
German De-expressionist 

OR:
an attempt to imbue the structures discovered as possible
in tape music
with the urgency of a live performance 

there's the applause part that opens the other version
each performer acts as a synthesizer
to be activated at the will of the interpreter of the score
:
old skeleton key to this piece for me:
the sounds are the trace of an observer
exploring an event
completely independent
as to time and location such
as a microphone at a cocktail party
flitting freely
through the whole of the event
place to place
time to time
still works for me
except "exploring" is the wrong word 

music conceived asocially
treating each moment as a state of things
a position on a dial

July 13, 2021

("...my chart shines high where the blue milks upset...") - Benjamin Boretz - Keith Eisenbrey [October 13, 2007, University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle]

the tempo is a delicate negotiation
the piece lives well at several
here
I am trying to get close to the originally marked indications
(as marked in the Lingua Press edition)
which brings out some of the more spaced out continuities and
disentangles some strands
but I sound a bit rushed
and play lots of wrong notes
sloppier than I would like

TV Party - Black Flag

collected from a time in my life when I was engulfing huge new swaths of all sorts of things
and also just about the last period in my life when I watched much TV

Gradus 1 (San Diego Series) - Neal Kosály-Meyer [January 1987]

where it all started
ground zero
that lowest A natural
down South 

the recording has a strange flange to it
its presence wavers in and out
near and far
I don't know what he used to record it with 

he hadn't gotten into
the long long spaces of nothing
yet

{from my journal entry of February 23, 1991:

How 5 Movements [a 1983 piece of mine] and Gradus are completely different:
Trajectory ---> 5 Movements 'progress'ively deconstructs into an atomic movement, while Gradus progressively constructs all possible universes starting with these few

State of Love and Trust - Pearl Jam [from Rearviewmirror]

harsher version of REM?
lots of high squeal like tires on pavement

Worm - John E [November 2004]

John's report on worms (the critters) with sound effects, for a school project

Verdichtung - Eric Flesher - Ryan Hare [from Intrada]

some of these extended techniques work as alternative sounds
for what is
or was
or will just be
happening
others as interjections
intrusions from an outer place
or extrusions through an inner

Consider the Birds 18 - Keith Eisenbrey [February 2007]

a gentle path
of paired syllable sized bursts
in a timepoint rhythm
gently skewed
by the internal rhythmic details
of what is included
in the burst 

stepping through past time to proof it

ethereal tide - John Teske - John Teske, Maria Scherer Wilson [from Wheel]

boxes finding their resonant join

Ghosting Doubles (third sighting) - Keith Eisenbrey [April 2018, University Temple United Methodist Church, Seattle]

interesting how Amy Denio's tune, Ghosting, upon which these doubles are based, is almost more obvious when it isn't there than when it is there
a neat trick if I do say so myself

July 14, 2021

Pavane, Variatio, Galiarde, Variatio, FVB 27-30 - Ferdinando Richardson - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

comprehensibility theory:
provide a graspable redundancy
change everything around it
each thing as it comes along
is related as it comes along
to that redundancy

Symphoniae Sacrae II, "Hütet euch, dass eure Herzen nicht beschweret werden", Op. 10 #11 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana

lovely bass voice!
elaborate music in the service of textual elaboration
clarification
expression
a rhetoric
designed to give the illusion of a certain determinate coherence

you will understand this text in this way and no other

July 15, 2021

Suite in C Major, BuxWV 228 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

these clothes are very stiff
not good for tennis

for daily wear
this fine outfit
allows some arm motion 

this one seems to float on gossamer
secret: yards and yards of whale bones
note the detailed stitching on these seams

Fughetta super "Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ", BWV 697 - Johann Sebastian Bach - Michael Chapuis

fragment for liturgical use
that worked well
I'll write it down

Dix-Septieme Ordre (mi) -  François Couperin - Michael Gilbert

the delicate science of balancing sequence and cadence
marking boundaries and going on
glittering lights
all within its proper bounds

Sonata in G Major, Kk. 124 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder

don't be shy to clarify what you are about
repetition partial and transformed
overlapped and sequential and recalled
or spilled
the arbitrariness of the larger structural repeats
is a strength
it frees the tonal schema from drama time

Variations on "Ich schlief, da träumtet mir", Wq. 118/1 - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi

he must have liked this theme
as he varied it on two occasions 

this one jumps right into figurational weirdness - played here on fortepiano

Variations on "Gott erhalt den Kaiser" - Franz Joseph Haydn - Christine Schornsheim

dere's da bood 

how very flatteringly respectful
where are those pig castrators when you need them
not where his bread was buttered I guess

Sonata in D Major, K. 311 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Mitsuko Uchida

nothing is in the way
full of devious mischiefs
had he met Haydn yet?

Romance in G Major, Op. 40 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Concertgebouworkest, Amsterdam, Bernard Haitink, Henryk Szeryng

study in double stops
very proper
something light easy and quick to write
goes down easy

July 16, 2021

Etude in E-flat minor, Op. 10 #7 - Frédéric Chopin - Cecile Licad

the chromatic left hand line
is pulled into the key
against its inclination
the bond will hold only so long
before those inclinations emerge into the right hand
a brave face held

Selection 6 from Selections from The Nutcracker - Piotr Ilyich Tchakovsky - Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy 

an exotic from sultry lands
so mysterious

2 Gesänge, Op. 34 - Richard Strauss - Kühn Mixed Chorus, Pavel Kühn

1 it may know where ground is
we mostly don't
sometimes
for a moment or two
but is it the same ground as before
or later
where we must be going
I think he had peeked at Bruckner's notes
to float free
oh to float free
each yearning back to ground
answered by a further floating free

2 among the keys implied within any segment
might there be an emergent relationship
of that segment
engaging in intimate tonal relations
with its fellows 

there is
in short
some fascinating voice leading going on in there 

suspensi

Amen
like ringing bells into the hills

In Session at the Tintinabulary

July 12, 2021

Gradus 368 - Neal Kosály-Meyer

thresholds: <one to two , two to ? , ? to ? . . .>
how many thresholds
of compositionality
of pitch quantity
are there?
where are they located
in quantity space? 
a two to limited
but greater than two
to greater than
limited to ?
ample
?
threshold being that point
at which
the game changes
threshold between:
the particulars of this are clearly and (instantly) distinguished
from the particulars of that
(eventually)
(arguably)
(possibly)
(analyzably)

thresholds proliferate through quantity space
|||
pitch class as a stratum of pitch space 
|
strata-nic thresholds?

Postscripts

::Consult the Oracle

infer that it never will here indeed

I am oak in which the king gentleman's

garden should attendants from which reference

Reality Check::

squadron

of fluorescent lights in the sky

the wanderer

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 Preface

"there are composers who plunge into their work urgently following their music into strenuous fantastic voyages of discovery, perhaps of self discovery; there are composers who apply themselves strenuously to discern and implement what their music requires of them, going where it needs them to go, fulfilling its demands out of a sense of intellectual, artistic, ethical obligation; there are composers who work from the outside in to energize their music to be as powerful self-projected personified presence as they can forge; there are composers who remain intactly disciplined, keeping intact and fulfilling rigorously their well-formed vision of how their music might perfectly do the work of reflecting on their persons as they conceive they would want, and deserve, to be reflected. from what point of view their music might be variably admirable, or engaging, because of these biographies, is probably not indeterminate but certainly indeterminable. is there any reason you'd want a key to this code?"

- Benjamin Boretz "not another little review"  from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020

Texts

Streaming

Wayward in Limbo

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.

- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.

July 9, 2021

Kyte Mika

an evenness in the measure
1 from 2 from 3 from 4
indistinguishable except by ordinal position
markers for larger structures are sparing
also
possibly
evenly spaced and counted out
and
of which content
as such
is effaced
rubbed smooth
it isn't sameness quested for
but a cleanly presented mathematic
charted art
arted chart

this one starts out almost like one of my corollaries
for me the heavy reverb has a distancing effect
and not just on the acoustic signal 

imitatio spatio 

the forever circling harmonic sequence
unorders order into unorder

lyrical def. with the ways of a sung voice

Recorded

July 4, 2021

Sonata in A Major, Op. 30 #1 - Ludwig van Beethoven - Itzhak Perlman, Vladimir Ashkenazy

negotiation between brusquery and politesse
economic work
so that no notes are wasted
everything works to the advantage of the whole
he does try

Die Winterreise, Part 2 - Franz Schubert - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore

E-flat Major to C minor
sneak back to E-flat Major end of Letzte Hoffnung
let's try D Major/minor
A Major to G minor
F Major
!
D minor inflected Die Wirtshaus
F minor C minor
A minor : Major : minor : Major
::
B minor 

the clean accompaniment is like line drawing 

Etude in E-flat minor - Frédéric Chopin - Cecile Licad

an emptied house never returned to
in which we wander distraught 

also a study
in how a sequence of harmonies inhabit
but don't clarify
the key 

we are not on a guided tour
we're on our own

Track 5, Selections from The Nutcracker - Piotr Ilyich Tchakovsky - Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy 

this house is full
and lively 

imported culture

Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op. 23 (#3) - Alexander Scriabin - Vladimir Ashkenazy

Scriabin myth:
the Chopin period
the Wagner period,
then his own tonal explorations 

interesting that he is placed with two such original tonal thinkers of the past
but I think he was always on his own explorations
even during the Chopin and Wagner periods
he was making his own study
of how to retrostruct tonality
I think
he also dug their ability to evoke an attractive fantasy land
instant suspension of the implausible
hinge
worlds in words
complete with Rachmaninovian Tune Bird !
(show off)
note how similar the rhythm and sonority of the last chords is to the Hammerklavier's opening salvo - very like indeed yes indeed

Symphony No. 2 - Charles Ives - New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein

a different thought thread is picked up here
this opening is trying for Berliozian nakedness
how like an Anglican
Yankee Rectitude
but Land of Cotton bucolic
ante bellum sentimentality
very like Hollywood's early Civil War films -
The General
Gone with the Wind
here comes the war
so heroic 

like the pianist at the silent movies
accompaniment of the illuminations
his politics are suspect
the 2nd movement is about Europe

(this is a nice recording
sells it utterly
one of Bernstein's strongest
he takes requisite care to clarify everything theatrically) 

having a bit of a Tchaikovsky moment there
every once in a while I hear what I think must be Maestro Bernstein
moaning along
I sincerely wish he hadn't
sincerely

destiny had become manifest
all was well
patriots may safely sleep
happy ending
party time
last movement is a bit of a paste up job
lots of flags
oh the hooplah

July 5, 2021

Searchlight Rag - Scott Joplin - William Albright

2 part texture
bass and tune
each with augmentations

Daphnes et Chloe - Maurice Ravel - Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz

it wafts from below
an ardent glow 

the music promises glorious costumes
seamless and glowing
zepherous
gracefully curved

each impression vanishes immediately
material returns
but there is no image of progression
outside of the presumed narrative
but all of the stage is there
every gesture
every light
every drape
falling
from
every body

July 6, 2021

Sonata 3 - Claude Debussy - Zino Francescatti, Robert Casadesus

tune wisps
formed of wire
geometries 

instrument characters play a flirty chase game

Finnegans Wake Chapter 1, Part 2 - James Joyce - Neal Kosály-Meyer [April 22, 2014]

. . . now after all that
lift we our ears
spring again springs anon
here is vicekings Grab
thingmud
all that is writ in this dirt
miscegenations on miscegenations
lissome lissome
and they all drank free
lose yourself in Heliopolis
under the sacred rooftree
under the salmonhouse
'twould dilate your heart to go
repose you now
finn no more 

the hubbub caused in Edenburough

Bad Luck Blues - Blind Lemon Jefferson [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

there is a lyricism to how, say,
a Beethoven melody floats on the points of its accompanimental figuration 

this is a similar science

How About You - Tommy Dorsey [from Goodbye, Babylon]

witness poem
unfancy
anyone can do it

I Believe I'll Dust My Broom - Robert Johnson [from The Complete Recordings]

almost like he'll skip a beat on occasion
but I don't care to go back to count

The Lamp of Memory - Peggy Lee [from The Complete Recordings 1941 - 1947]

the arrangement and instrumental performance
is a truly well cut gown
nearly steals the show 

interesting place harmonically to end

Who's To Blame - T. Texas Tyler [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

it might a been your fault
come on Perky
just say you're sorry idiot

Twice the Lovin' (Half the Time) - Jean Shepard - [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

"I'm gonna tear your playhouse down"
I think Ann Peebles used that line too

Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis [from Sun Records Definitive Hits]

on point
quick echo rhythm
between his aw shucks lust
and the keyboard

July 8, 2021

Symphony in B-flat minor, Op. 113 "Baba Yar" (#13) - Dmitri Shostakovich - Moscow Philharmonic - Kiril Kondrashin

narrow intervals circle forever
things have not gotten better
since Boris
unrelenting terminal weariness
wandering in a deep hole
sullen morale of the damned anyway
even the bright Spring leaves
fall in the end
the outer shell has cracked

In Session at the Tintinabulary

July 5, 2021

Banned Rehearsal 1029 - Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Steve Kennedy, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 1029 210705

We gathered on and around the porch to enjoy Karen's delicious home-made cherry ice cream and to celebrate the 37th Bannediversary with proper noise.

Postscripts

::Consult the Oracle

known nor possible obtained to john pater

volo ut ubi sum ego illi

sint mecum ut maybe also may work

Reality Check::

attacked by a cavalry of leaves

it is violet now and I am not

der Mond scheint

Playlist

 Preface

"Music is not really much like science: the notion of a 'musical problem' is pure slogan, or at least, metaphor. But the metaphor of 'musical science' is a potent enabler, a powerful pretext for strenuous theorizing and talking, or for strenuously opposing - discursively or behaviorally - those acts. That compositional thinking is of a fundamentally different nature is something that had to be discovered as a consequence of a long history of serious efforts, of many different aspects, to find the precise rigor through which the infrastructure of musical thought would reveal itself."

- Benjamin Boretz "The Zeitgeist of Perspectives, ab origine"  from "inside in . . . / . . . outside out" Open Space Publications, 2020

Texts

Streaming

Wayward in Limbo

With the Chapel closed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wayward Music Series now moves from the concert hall to the living room. In place of our usual ten monthly concerts, Nonsequitur is curating and commissioning ten Seattle artists each month to create a series of streaming audio sessions of exclusive material. Many of these will be essentially “live” performances recorded at home for this occasion. Others may create a mix of pre-recorded material that has not been previously released elsewhere.

- from the Wayward Music Series website at https://www.waywardmusic.org/.

June 26, 2021

Marcin Pączkowski

MMM #1

internal thumping
indifferently regular
distantly external
roar
as might a jet in the sky

radio signal
closely external
are we slabbed
?
laid out
as Big Mister Finnegan
a surface for writing upon
inscribed by industrial machinery 

not an alien attack
this is ours
the miniature clatter tower
clatters down
electric drizzle

June 27, 2021

Greg Campbell

Chimes & Vibraphone 1

Bugle & Drum Set 1

French Horn & Toy Electric Sax

Chimes & Vibraphone 2

Kpanlogo Drum & Drum Set

Bugle & Drum Set 2

Chimes & Vibraphone 3

Cornet & Vibraphone

French Horn & Resonant Metals

pitch centered composition
with percussion
of variously focused pitch centers 

not just
pitch as melody part
but also
the ways in which
pitch can hang in space
lingering
al niente 

exposed thinking
plain to hear

Recorded

June 27, 2021

Incidental Music to "The Mother" - Carl Nielsen - Athena Ensemble

3 short cues
flute and harp and violin (viola?) 

a-sentimental tonal clarity
none of it is obscured
one can walk around it
see over the top
right through
and lift it high

Calico Rag - Frank Banta and Howard Kopp [from Allen Lowe's That Devilin' Tune]

piano and light percussion
so that
this take on ragtime piano
is a kind of drumming 

entertaining in that way
that vaudeville seems to have been

Teasin' the Frets - Nick Lucas [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

piano and guitar
easy togetherness

Awful Fix - Buddy Boy Hawkins [from Allen Lowe's Really The Blues]

blues as a vehicle
for verbal free play
like hip hop

Hallelujah Side - Quaker City Gospel Singers [from Allen Lowe's Turn Me Loose White Man]

indulging in the pleasure
of singing
in four parts

Kind Hearted Woman Blues (take 2) - Robert Johnson [from The Complete Recordings]

telling us about it

When the Roses Bloom Again - Peggy Lee [from The Complete Recordings 1941-1947]

the orchestra comes in
sounding like a fabulous gown
glitters and shapely
a message to the boys abroad

5 years separate the recordings made by Robert Johnson from this
clearly money was involved

3 Compositions - Milton Babbitt - Robert Taub

bridging some complex of ravines
among Arnold Schoenberg, Art Tatum, Bill Evans, and Conlon Nancarrow 

full of sudden explosions

Schoenberg Interview with Halsey Stevens

and he spends the whole time asking about painting

Rock Island Line - Johnny Cash [from Sun Records Definitive Hits]

the tempo play is all about that Sun Records reverb
he plays it like a master

June 28, 2021

Toccata Jazzica - Matthis Michel - David Di Fiore [from The Cathedral Organ Collection - live recital from St Martin Metropolitan Cathedral Bratislava, August 28th, 2013]

light fingered
tricky in a large space

Do Right Woman - Do Right Man - Aretha Franklin [collected from Dave Marsh's The Heart of Rock & Soul]

I'll slow this down
so you can hear what I'm saying
and I'll repeat it
to make it clear

The Fashions Change - Lake Washington Singers, Betty Eisenbrey, JoAnne Deacon [live recording of Spring Concert April 14, 1972]

to its credit it provides a platform
for soloists and smaller ensembles and a variety of musics
presented historically (sort of)
much as this blog does (sort of) 

yup there's the vocal blackface
oy 

there's my mom singing Lida Rose
finish up with corporate happy time

Atmen gibt das Leben . . . - Karlheinz Stockhausen - Sinfonie-Orchester und Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Karlheinz Stockhausen

hip(c) hey! ah! 

Eva Adam 

a precisely drawn
first person
portrait
of a confused mind 

crowd scenes
claxon
back to hick
the non-ironic silly
stuck
solidified
frozen
chemically granitic
stonefaced

June 29, 2021

Book of Windows - Keith Eisenbrey - Keith Eisenbrey, Paul Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt, Neal Kosály-Meyer [recorded in Bellevue on June 25, 1982]

as clunky as it is
there is much in this piece that has stuck with me 

Neal on piano
Paul on clarinet
Aaron reading the wordmare
me reading the introductory texts and turning pages 

made days before I got on a plane for New York and Bard
and within a day or so of when Karen and I first met 

a momentous June indeed 

prime number cross rhythms
in the background structures
there are pictures

Pilentze Pee - Bulgarian State Radio & TV Female Vocal Choir, Philip Koutev [from Le Mystere des voix Bulgares, Volume 1]

this arrangement is composed with a scalpel
uses folk vocal production and inflection
but isn't some person with a recording device
finding folks

Banned Rehearsal 291 - John E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Aaron Keyt [April 11, 1992]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 291 920411

solid thumps and whumps
no mistake
Aaronsbundler on dijeridu 

whatever we do is right there
bells on the door post
spit up on the floor
clearly the Tintinabulary 

signal under extreme pressure
Aaron recites the holidays
the times that try men's souls
time to feed the cats
that's Spiro T. Agnew
John is sad
drumming leads to drink
where
or what
is drambouli

Little Wonder - David Bowie [from Earthling]

a song in two parts
the little wonder part
and the so far away part
then little wonder
to start up again
for instrumental electronics play

Banned Rehearsal 628 - Isaac E, Karen Eisenbrey, Keith Eisenbrey, Isabel K, Neal Kosály-Meyer [January 11, 2002]

Keith Eisenbrey · Banned Rehearsal 628 020111

from a gentler age
recorded to DAT
tapping is plentiful

June 30, 2021

The Rain - Jarrad Powell - Jessica Kenney [from Stonehouse Songs]

sung without accompaniment

inflected time sense
spacious but focused 

inflected pitch sense
chromatic but centered 

inflected setting
syllabic but ornamental 

sophistication played straight

The Day That You Deleted Me - Your Mother Should Know [live at Prospect UCC February 4, 2012]

recorded with that crazy compressor mic
works OK except for what the tambourine does to it
which is constant
Neal does pretty well in falsetto

two streams exchange imaginations - walking words - Mark So [from Open Space 45]

a distant voice
a close voice
traffic noise
or other sounds
such as birds 

fragments float through
walk on snow
walk on water 

punctuated by mechanism clicks
left channel much quieter
but ever-present 

there might be material shared
they might be the same voice
broken into parts
with occasional repetition
a-systematic as an image 

considered words

July 1, 2021

The Irish Ho-Hoane, Fvb 26 - Traditional - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]

as
the facts of it
set down
with great care
and exactness
and
in the finest hand

Symphoniae Sacrae II, "Lobet den Herrn in seinem Heiligtum", Op. 10 #10 - Heinrich Schütz - Capella Augustana

with great industry
working out the relations
between vertical consonance
and horizontal fluidity

Suite in C Major, BuxWV 230 - Dieterich Buxtehude - Simone Stella

pleaching complete
it is no longer possible
to extricate
the source
of each twig
of voice
nor vertical
nor horizontal
nor which
answers which

Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ, BWV 722 - Johann Sebasian Bach - Michael Chapuis

interlineal flourishes
nourished
by the irregular phraseology
of gothic chorale tunes 

an old source 

monumental without being Monumental 

solid to the core

Quinzieme Ordre (la) - François Couperin - Rafael Puyana

a swarm of camels
gracefully threading needle eyes
departing sunsetward
beset by prancing clowns
it's hurdy gurdy time,  sunshine 

anything can be said
if said in good taste
even here
in this tiny closet
here's how
watch careful now

Sonata in E-flat Major, Kk. 123 - Domenico Scarlatti - Jan-Pieter Belder

tonality floats free
in register space
all the back alley ways
are known and brightly lit

Variations on Ich Schlief, Du Traumte Mir - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Miklos Spanyi

as much about imaginative variation
as step by step
path
of variation
sequence matters 

or 

like spokes
sequence doesn't matter
so much 

classical
that way vertical
is made the material
of the horizontal
in order
to clarify
the higher level vertical
as a synthesis
sequence matters loosely

Sonata in D Major, Hob. XVI.19 - Franz Joseph Haydn - Christine Schornsheim

dynamics
stepped or stopped
a mechanical solution
that operated globally
simply double the instrument
make a soft one
and a loud one
in the same box
as one did with the organ
but they had clavichord as a model too
or use a mechanism
to damp the strings
or some of them
operates globally
mind they were quite clever with their stops 

a machine for telling stories
Randallian syncopation

Missa Brevis - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - University of Puget Sound Chorale, Thomas Goleeke

hurried for Mozart, his timing isn't there

Postscripts

::Consult the Oracle

compatible for the sway cannot help

letting him sink into such a state that

him compatible his wife and children

Reality Check::

inverts

his desert

of grid mounted objects