Tag Archives: Music

12/21/2024

Posted on 12/01/2024 by chick

I tried listening to The Nutcracker Suite on YouTube the other day, but there were all these weird, nonrhythmic beats that were driving me nuts. Turns out it was a live recording of the ballet. All those little thuds were … Continue reading →

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9/4/2024

Posted on 09/04/2024 by chick

Yesterday I had my first music composition lesson since June. My teacher liked the piece I’d written (the only one I finished over the summer; it’s a chromatic piece that my daughter insisted be named “Burglary”). I enjoyed listening to … Continue reading →

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3/2/2024

Posted on 03/02/2024 by chick

In addition to my weekly music lessons and composition assignments, I’ve been reading music theory books and websites, listening to recordings, and watching various music-related YouTube videos. I mentioned some things I’d seen online to my teacher, and he said, … Continue reading →

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2/28/2024

Posted on 02/28/2024 by chick

I started learning how to write music in canon, and it’s sort of amazing. It’s a perpetual music machine. You can cap it off, but the potential is always there to go on and on and on, forever, into musical … Continue reading →

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To Be Chopin

Posted on 07/23/2023 by chick

As I’ve said before, these days I don’t want to play Chopin as much as I want to be Chopin. But music composition is complicated, and I can’t figure it all out on my own. I tried the book route, … Continue reading →

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Day 110: Three Things About This Week

Posted on 07/01/2020 by chick

I ordered olive oil from Target earlier this week. I figured that they wouldn’t offer to ship it if they couldn’t handle it. I was wrong, and I did not enjoy getting an oil-soaked package full of broken glass delivered … Continue reading →

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Musical Thinking

Posted on 12/30/2019 by chick

It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music Ursula K. Le Guin

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Music for Writing

Posted on 04/28/2019 by chick

Listening to Into the Trees by Zoe Keating. Good music to listen to while writing, or anytime

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The Soundtrack to My Life

Posted on 05/10/2018 by chick

I often use music to block out distractions as I write, but it has to be the kind of music that won’t itself be a distraction. That means that it can’t have any words. When writing Morning Pages and blog … Continue reading →

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My Fortune

Posted on 03/23/2018 by chick

My fortune from last night’s fortune cookie: Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

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