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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Dec 8, 2022 10:57:55 GMT -5
Well, I'm too hyped. I used my newly acquired skills to show this to you.
obs.: "Skills" is a word that here means "discovering how to use an appropriate app to recognize sheet music and turn it into something that can be understood by people like me who don't understand sheet music or play musical instruments".
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Post by Reba on Dec 8, 2022 11:01:39 GMT -5
does anyone know anything about "Imaginary Comforts", DH's previous theatrical effort? is there a filmed performance, or a script available? Here's a trailer and some behind the scenes video of the original production, and an interview. Unfortunately no script or other recordings that I know of. man, theater is so cringe.
Well, I'm too hyped. I used my newly acquired skills to show this to you.
obs.: "Skills" is a word that here means "discovering how to use an appropriate app to recognize sheet music and turn it into something that can be understood by people like me who don't understand sheet music or play musical instruments".
the second staff is the bass notes, played at the same time as the first staff. given its simplicity i imagine this could be something DH will play himself.
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Post by FileneNGottlin on Dec 8, 2022 17:54:53 GMT -5
Thoughts on the music notation, although at least a few things are likely wrong:
There are four visible staves-- the first is for a vocalist. The second looks like accordion, going by the bass note-chord pattern and a boom-chuck rhythm-- it seems to me a little odd that it's written out (but my frame of reference is folk accordion, where you typically have just the chord name and improvise the rhythm for it (incidentally, I think the chord written below E(Major) is actually an E dominant seventh...). Often there's a right hand(the side that looks like piano keys) part for accordion music, but this appears to be just left hand (the side with buttons)
The second two lines, which share bar lines(the vertical lines cutting through the staff), are for piano and meant to be played at the same time(the bottom line is in bass clef. The piano part is actually fairly simple-- no chords, etc, although that might be a reduction for this particular copy.
I think all four staves are played together. There's another word in measure 59 after "fraught", because otherwise it would be written as a half rest, and not an eighth rest. The key signature has at least one flat, because B natural is an accidental.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Dec 9, 2022 5:40:20 GMT -5
These are true skills!
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Post by Reba on Dec 9, 2022 5:46:12 GMT -5
I don’t see why the first staff couldn’t be the accordion right hand as well. that is how songs are written in accordion music books, with the lyrics in between.
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Post by the panopticountolaf on Dec 9, 2022 9:07:21 GMT -5
The Mr. Meloy that DH mentions in the Instagram post is most likely Colin Meloy, of the Decemberists (I assume so because he's the first music-oriented man named Meloy that came into my mind when I read the caption). Exciting stuff!
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Dec 9, 2022 10:19:19 GMT -5
"Very Fraught-" We're only missing a word that begins with D. I think all four staves are played together. There's another word in measure 59 after "fraught", because otherwise it would be written as a half rest, and not an eighth rest. The key signature has at least one flat, because B natural is an accidental. Putting two and two together...
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Post by ryantrimble457 on Dec 9, 2022 19:17:37 GMT -5
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Dec 9, 2022 20:17:27 GMT -5
Can anyone transcribe it? I can't entirely make out what they're saying.
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Post by FileneNGottlin on Dec 10, 2022 9:11:19 GMT -5
I don’t see why the first staff couldn’t be the accordion right hand as well. that is how songs are written in accordion music books, with the lyrics in between. Yes!--- this is even more exciting, suggesting the song is sung by the accordionist. I would agree that Colin Meloy is the song writer-- he did a book talk with Handler on the promotional tour for Adverbs and is listed as a musical collaborator on Handler's website. (And his wife, Carson Ellis illustrated The Composer is Dead)
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Post by Gregor Anwhistle on Dec 11, 2022 12:28:36 GMT -5
Can anyone transcribe it? I can't entirely make out what they're saying. The first line seems to be "Life is cruel and..." but I'm having trouble with the second half. It kinda sounds like "overly long, overly long" but I'm not sure.
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Post by R. on Dec 11, 2022 14:28:02 GMT -5
That’s it I think.
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Dec 12, 2022 7:52:35 GMT -5
Thank you, Gregor. So we have:
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What a happy sounding musical!
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Dec 12, 2022 8:40:03 GMT -5
I promised I wouldn't get carried away thinking this has anything to do with ASOUE... But I can't. These lyrics seem to have come from the universe of ASOUE.
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Post by Tiran O'Saurus on Dec 12, 2022 9:54:25 GMT -5
I promised I wouldn't get carried away thinking this has anything to do with ASOUE... But I can't. These lyrics seem to have come from the universe of ASOUE. Agreed. ATWQ and PFB never were this depressed.
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