Preface
engraving by R. Seymour - "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club"
Texts
From Recent Arrivals
July 9, 2022
Get It Out Me - Janet Jackson [from 20 Y.O.]
the whole apparatus
as a drum strike
conversations among two voices
of the same voice
tag on ending
inflicted for album listening
Maybe - Janis Joplin [from I Got Dem 'Ol Kozmic Blues Again]
similarity between the way she uses the band as a platform
within which
verbal activity shenaniganifies
and the way hip hop vocalists use the
beat
Big Yellow Taxi - Joni Mitchell [from Ladies of the Canyon]
where is she from
vowel placement is unfamiliar
especially O of
Gone
Alberta/Saskatchewan
well I'll be
I Know I've Got Religion - The Staple Singers [from Uncloudy Day & Will The Circle Be Unbroken]
pronounces it Reliyion
four syllables
sometimes
Too Young - Michael Jackson [from Music and Me]
affirming tween feelings
nonthreatening sheen
Milestones - Miles Davis & Robert Glasper, Georgia Ann Mul [from Everything's Beautiful]
professionally machined and polished
with a small off-centeredness that
keeps it lively
I Just Can't Stop Loving You - Morgana King [from I Just Can't Stop Loving You]
soundtrack to a montage
Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op 43 (Sonate melancolique] - Ignaz Moscheles - Bichele Bolla
similar in style to early Schubert
but not quite as vertiginous
beginning to write for the full arm strength of an adult
the forte piano
Bolla uses
has lost most of its harpsichord nature
fabulous una corda sound on the last two chords
worth the price of
admission
Recorded
Concerto in C-sharp minor, Op. 129 - Dmitri Shostakovich - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis, Dmitry Sitkovetsky
weary spaces filling
a clever trouble maker winks
and fades back
impertinent mockery
daringly measured provocation
getting on
with getting on with it
no open heroics
the dead weigh
heavily in the stagnating air
progress is glacial
and uncertain
fleet of wit
low pokes
from all angles
orchestras do
not tutti here
gone with the heroics
Vietnam - Cheech and Chong [from Cheech and Chong]
somebody's talking bad about Roger
Roger ain't here
Captain isn't
here either
Who Is It? - Talking Heads [from Talking Heads: 77]
taking a cue from King Crimson
of Discipline days
controlled
cleverness
(I Saw You) Shine - Flipper [from Generic]
a wallow sound
yelled over
into deaf ears
vocal and band
share the tempo
but don't affect each other
from inside
their statements
the vocal is parallel
to the band
sound
without regard
to each other
mutually impervious
Who's That Tapping at the Window - Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger [from American Folk Songs for Children]
all the song that's necessary for it
First Program In Standard Time - Robin Holcomb - The New York Composer's Orchestra [from First Program in Standard Time]
turn a corner and we're in a differently vibed neighborhood
scene 2
noir streets
trench coat ready
cue rain
scene 3
grim pig march
scene 4
distant from it all
Magic Joe - Shonen Knife [from Brand New Knife]
big fat 60s guitar sound
to celebrate a plastic rubber toy
with an
electronic brain
Through The Rain - Mariah Carey [from Charmbracelet]
self help encouragement
her voice flips from one color to another
within single words
or between an article and its noun
Consider the Birds 25 - Keith Eisenbrey [February 3, 2007]
transmissions from distant dovecotes
phrala - John Teske - John Teske, Bryan Folke [from Wheel]
muscular bowing
a footrace
in which
one ought not
to
always be
in the lead
Regular - Your Mother Should Know [recorded live at the Sunset Tavern, Seattle, April 18, 2017]
something odd is happening to Neal's guitar
and seems to throw him off
his horse
and he sounds hoarse
Herbstlaubtrittvergnügen - Eric Nathan [from Missing Words]
a character study
Doctor Bull's Juell, Fvb 138 - John Bull - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
in threes of threes
or of fours
or of twos
but always threes
Sonata in B-flat, Kk. 189 - Domenico Scarlatti - Pieter-Jan Belder
begins like a happy round
but takes some unsuspected corners
piles
iterations upon each other so superfluously
one loses count of one's
count
String Quartet in D Major, Op. 20 #4 - Franz Joseph Haydn - Kodály Quartet
opening figure possesses multiple identifiable sub figures
his parts are
made of parts
Don Carlos, Appendix 3 "La Ballet de la Reine" - Giuseppe Verdi - Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado, Placido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini Terani, Leo Nucci, Ruggero Raimondo, Nicolai Giaurov
hey
a violin solo
and attempts to curtail same
a little
hidden violin concerto
inside the dance
quite an extensive and
dramatic little symphony this
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| an anenome exposed |
Charles Giteau - Kelly Harrell and the Virginia String Band [from Anthology of American Folk Music]
hanged for murdering the prez
could happen to any of you
Me and the Devil Blues (DAL 398-2) - Robert Johnson [from The Complete Recordings]
each verse begins with a double statement verbally
but the music is not
quite a double
there is an interval between them to be explored
Shorty George - Lead Belly [from Where Did You Sleep Last Night, Lead Belly Legacy Volume 1]
information about a disreputable character
music as a means
of
inflating and broadcasting scuttlebutt
One for my baby (and one more for the road) - Billie Holiday [from Songs for Distingué Lovers]
narrow interval between the chords
then readjust the harmonic position
on the barstool
to relax into the phrase end
the instrumentals
play the part of the bartender
Lucky Day - Judy Garland [from The Garland Touch]
it's strange
in what is
after all
a strictly audio track
to have an instrumental verse
that is clearly there for the big
dance number
performed invisibly
a piano
an electronic instrument of some sort
and some amplified
other noisemakers
such as one that plucks
or one that scrapes
or percussions
not certain
negotiating position on stage
the piano is stern and authoritative
though the electronic
instrument is persistent
like a boatswain's whistle
with a metal
squeak edge on it
often though
it is like as if
the piano in
its playing
caused the other noisemakers to activate
they all
being echoes or avatars
of the piano sounding
they get loose
but what is it
sounds dealing
with their often shrill
compatriots
keeping it under control
nested tuples
of prison
door hinges
and yelling
Got To Be There - Michael Jackson [from Got To Be There]
so he nails the high notes
but why are they at all
Blackout - David Bowie [from Heroes]
the opening changes spread out the reference time spans
to play with
only partially congealed into a song
Brethren We Have Met to Worship - Christopher Parkening [from Simple Gifts]
sentimentalizing a hymn tune
why
Eric B. is on the Cut - Eric B. & Rakim [from Paid in Full]
detail in the sound
holding fast to pulsing dance
the title is the
whole of the text
as far as I could hear
useful as four weighted
feet
It's You Or No One - Morgana King [from This is Always]
here the instrumental verse is a dance
performed on guitar
My Need - Janet Jackson [from The Velvet Rope]
the tune is held tight to the chord cycle
which is narrow and stepwise
Violin Sonata in A Major - César Franck [from The Romance of Music Chamber Concert, Sedro-Woolley, April 14, 2002]
complete with tuning up
like a sound check
first movement unfolds
from the intervals
between the segments
of the first two keyboard
figures
second unfolds out of the trajectories
of its opening
keyboard figure
the violinist's intonation
is impervious to the
scale degree functions in play
not that it's easy
but then
why this piece
in which
the intricacy
of just that
is crucial
third movement opens with a motion from then
back
to a firm base
the violin goes rhapsodic
the piano comments from
harmonic limbo land
first three movements
have a tendency to dream
off at the end
fourth movement wanders out of its tonal space
but
it's a sunny day
so finding home is easy
except when reminded of
the past
Blow - The Ballad of Bill Miner - Rachel Harrington [from The Bootlegger's Daughter]
harmonies imitating train whistle
heard through shifting wind
what
a rich man won't give
a righteous man will steal
Minute Etudes (book one) - Emily Doolittle - Keith Eisenbrey [recorded live at the Chapel Performance Space, Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, June 23, 2012]
I'm working on recording these pieces now
tempo yikes
a bit rushed
and sloppy
too fast
the fourth is the best performance of
the lot
otherwise too fast for clarity
Take It To The Table - Shallow Lenses [from War Poems]
sounds like a Gervais or two
advice about growing adult
Banned Telepath 86 Toad Hall and Irvine - Jennifer Chung, Aaron Keyt [April 27, 2022]
radio in Ukrainian
and synthesizer
is it possible to learn a
language
from news broadcasts
I think
no
since there
is no context
to the statements made
sounds as of traffic
but not
I think
entirely behind the Ukrainian news
them's frogs
The Spanish Paven, Fvb 139 - John Bull - Claudio Columbo [from The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
making a solid object
out of counting to three
in several
dimensions of planes
skew the issue
by also counting to two
If I Have a Ticket Lord Can I Ride? - Rev. T. E. Weems [from Goodbye, Babylon]
this music didn't arise from nowhere
nor did it stop there
Spring Song - C. Cramer [from Evans 78s]
quit work
because he heard a robin sing
time to travel
(take
care dude
see Siegfried)
Buzzy - Charlie Parker [from The Complete Savoy and Dial Master Takes]
one may be on one
but if so
then nothing else
is quite on
anything else
and
one is suspect
drummer and bass
conspire
by playing atop each other
Hillbilly Music - Jerry Lee Lewis [from Rare and Rockin']
this music
is about another music
or rather
the lyrics of
this music
are about that other
then it's about itself
then
about the whole genre thing
fill in the blank
any multisyllabic
genre name
will fit
The Square - Stevie Wonder [from The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie]
the days of the commercially manufactured star
the issue is not the
musicianship of the victim
nor even their rewards
but the bind the
system puts music in
Correspondences - Milton Babbitt - Chicago Symphony Orchestra, James Levine
several activities stepping on each other's toes
as they edge through a
narrow way
like the Beaver and the Butcher
on nervously convergent
paths
In Session at The Tintinabulary
July 13, 2022
Prelude in B Major - Keith Eisenbrey
July 14, 2022
Prelude in D minor - Ken Benshoof
Anybody's Fingerbook 7x7 (transpositional) D A B - Keith Eisenbrey
Maple Leaf 220714 - Keith Eisenbrey
Karen and I were enjoying afternoon ice teas in Anarcadia and were serenaded by the cheeps of junkos as they foraged
July 15, 2022
Prelude in F-sharp Major - Keith Eisenbrey
Prelude in F Major - Lockrem Johnson
Anybody's Fingerbook 7x7 (transpositional) A B C D - Keith Eisenbrey
five more to go!
Postscripts
Skaldmud's Doodle Gallery
some listening journal doodles from 1989
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