Getting out of a rut
Feb. 9th, 2010 09:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhuI've been kinda down for the past week. It's a combination of low-sun blahs (yes, I know, grow lamps) and a weekend in which I spent too much time unsuccessfully trying to develop a crossword idea and a feedback loop in which my lack of creative productivity saps me of the drive needed to exercise creative productivity.
So tonight I forced myself to do more editing on KabShab. In this instance, it was finishing off Psalm 92. The way I've been composing these is on a piano staff, and then "exploding" the parts out to six voices and distributing lyrics. Some movements this is more involved than others --- sometimes because they're contrapuntal and sometimes because I'm really writing for fewer than six voices at a time and I need to work out who gets which phrases and/or whether a phrase should be doubled in more than one voice. Plus I'm fighting Finale's really broken way of handling lyrics data.
Anyway, Psalm 92 is now "exploded." Of the ten movements, numbers 4 (Shiru Shir Chadash) and 5 (Yirgzu Amim) need a significant amount of part editing, and 8 (Lecha Dodi) needs a small amount as well. A few others need lyrics cleanup, and they all need a pass to check dynamics and range. But it's actually conceivable that I will be able to get a group together to record these in late spring.
That would be really awesome. It would be great to get some of this "creative productivity" to the point where someone other than myself might enjoy the fruits of my labors.
So tonight I forced myself to do more editing on KabShab. In this instance, it was finishing off Psalm 92. The way I've been composing these is on a piano staff, and then "exploding" the parts out to six voices and distributing lyrics. Some movements this is more involved than others --- sometimes because they're contrapuntal and sometimes because I'm really writing for fewer than six voices at a time and I need to work out who gets which phrases and/or whether a phrase should be doubled in more than one voice. Plus I'm fighting Finale's really broken way of handling lyrics data.
Anyway, Psalm 92 is now "exploded." Of the ten movements, numbers 4 (Shiru Shir Chadash) and 5 (Yirgzu Amim) need a significant amount of part editing, and 8 (Lecha Dodi) needs a small amount as well. A few others need lyrics cleanup, and they all need a pass to check dynamics and range. But it's actually conceivable that I will be able to get a group together to record these in late spring.
That would be really awesome. It would be great to get some of this "creative productivity" to the point where someone other than myself might enjoy the fruits of my labors.