Dave Brubeck tells a story about Paul Desmond's habit of weaving his current girlfriend's phone number into a solo, at which point Dave would play it back at him! If you ever hear Desmond on record playing a quote from "Don't Fence Me In" that was his way of telling Brubeck or (more usually) Joe Morello that he was playing too much behind his solo. Jim ----- Original Message ----- From: Harold Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 12:11 PM Subject: [Finale] Re: Phone numbers in music
> Folks, > > There is "The Telephone" by Menotti. > > In addition, I used to use my colleague's number and mine to > illustrate antecedent and consequent relationships for the theory > class. The sequence was 3-4-3-2-6-0 9, 3-4-5-1-8-9-0. It made a nice > waltz tune. > > I used to give an assignment to my composition students in which they > created a rhythmic sequence from their telephone numbers converted to > binary numbers. The 1s would be quarter notes, and the 0s would be > eighths. They could choose any meter or changing meters. It really > got them away from 4 x 4 clunky rhythms. > For example, 4-7-2 comes out 0100 0111 0010 > > e q e e e q q q e e q e > > Try it. It's fun! > > Hal > > -- > Harold Owen > 2830 Emerald St., Eugene, OR 97403 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Visit my web site at: > http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~hjowen > FAX: (509) 461-3608 > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
