So much behind the scenes preparation before a concert if you are running an ensemble... one of the less distasteful ones is the transcribing of music for the concert itself. This is sort of relatively relaxing and fun now that I've gotten sort of okay at using the MIDI keyboard in addition to the computer keyboard to input music into Musescore.

So, for a concert in a month or so, we are mixing up some more recent music with our usual specialisation in the Baroque and Classical period. And I have two different scores to input into Musescore so that I can make parts for the players.

The Argento is a modern setting of Elizabethan poems and words... originally composed for piano, he also did a setting for baroque ensemble as well... and it is a strange mix of old sounds, with definitely modern harmony. I do like them, even if they are a touch on the strange side to my old-fashioned ears! But you can see the influences... and for some reason, Amazon only shipped the score and a flute part... and we have noticed that this is sort of a common event for buying music from Amazon... often they are missing parts.

... and the other is a couple of Legrenzi Balletti... definitely old in style, from the 17th century. And these are a set that were published after his death, so a posthumous collection. My wife is still up in the air as to whether they should be included in the concert... but I'm quite fond of them! Again, only a score... but at least it is a modern academic reproduction, but I also have the original facsimiles for reference as well!

... and here is my transcribing setup! My gaming laptop, and the Keystation Mini32... perfect for doing these things whilst travelling, as it is a short MIDI input device with a nice small travel case.

I will probably try to get one part in per day... and then by the end of two weeks, I'll have it all finished. Slow and steady... so there is no last minute panic before the concert when we should be in the rehearsal mindset!

... bleah, even though Argento is a decent composer, and a modern one with modern taste and understanding... he is using a baroque ensemble, and I will rewrite some of his ornamentation uses... those trills, they don't make sense where he places them... they work as a modern classical musician who wouldn't know better, but they are rhetorically and harmonically in the wrong place! And it drives me NUTS! Anyway... nothing against the composer (and modern classical musicians...), he wouldn't know any better... but I'm not going to let it slide!

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