Elan Mudrow
Smidgens
A Score To Settle
We share the intros
Melodies, harmony and noise
Along the loud life…enough
To vibrate the moon
Shake a star loose
While all our faults
And splits of passion
Deepen beneath our feet
Buzzing between brackets
Of time signatures, rattling keys
Propping up our city by the meter
In preparation of the worst
We sing our bridges into soundness
Reinforcing our staved streets to
Protect us from dissonant gravel
Engaged with our theme and variations
Through further development
Counter melodies, extended harmonics humming
Then unexpectedly, the earthshaking shimmy arrives
we enjoy its counterpoint
Addicted to our contrapuntal connection
To the falling structure of song
Frightened and exhilarated by the penultimate beat
Coda
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I just really enjoyed this.
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Such fierce passions. 🌹
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Oh! This is a brilliant composition. I love it.
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Earthquake….has been in the air, on TV, radio, conversation. Catastrophe has moved in down the street, our new neighbor.
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Blimey!
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music is created in the silence between the notes. drama by the silence after the scream.
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The ultimate beat is the last sound you hear before you die. I attended a “performance” of the piece. The performer announced the title and then shut up for the four minutes and change. How can silence be a work of art? Works of art are made of something tangible, and how tangible is an absence of sound?
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what he asks himself would be the ultimate beat?
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I often resemble those, sans fade.
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It’s much better to devise a very, very, very long fade out, which is similar to some blog posts I’ve read.
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Wow! I love this. Lyrical. The way you incorporated musical terms and the flow mesmerized me.
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I always thought Hermit’s version could have used a modulation gimmick for that third chorus on their version. And speaking of musical terminology…I was, realIy. I wonder if we could call the absurd repetition of a chorus to fill time in an otherwise content-less song a “Nooner?”
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Love the creative use of all the musical terms, esp the “coda” at the end. The blank sheet makes me feel like composing something, and I haven’t played an instrument in twenty years! Penultimate? What a word! WOW. 🙂
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Second verse, same as the first?
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