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ABOUT THIS RESEARCHER

Created: 21st June 2000 
Kes
Researcher 139239: 1 + (3 x 9) + 2 + 3 + 9 = 42
I've been a follower of The Guide from radio days, through TV days, then in print, and now at H2G2.

I tend to hitch-hike around the planet in a mixture of short visits (lots of them) and long-term moves that have a Ford Prefect-like interval of 10 to 15 years between "lifts".

At the end of January 2003, after a 17-year stay, I left Perth, Western Australia, (see Perth W.A. ) which has a great climate, but a time zone that kept me out of sync with most places on the planet. Mary and I took the next "lift" and moved to the UK. We are now in WIltshire, thoroughly enjoying life, the universe and everything.

A few other favourite places on Sol 3 are: Southwold, Suffolk, U.K. , Englands Lane (before they pulled half the shops down) in Belsize Park, Hampstead , London , also Prague (especially during the Prague Spring) and a village near Brussels called Zaventem

My interests include:
  • visiting new places and enjoying being at home,

  • maintaining alcohol levels and sober reflection,

  • real life and the Internet,

  • science facts and science fiction,

  • Lego and individuality,

  • birdwatching and cats,

  • stimulating conversation and the comfortable silence between friends,

  • logically consistent paradoxes (as you might have guessed)

  • and music.

Musicians Guild Member
I am a MuG - a member of the h2g2 Musicians Guild, which is a virtual club for musicians, singers, composers, and other music afficionados at h2g2. I play piano (mainly classical, but also pop), compose, and sing tenor (very badly) when there is safety in the numbers of a large choir. I also work on some music projects in the h2g2 University, two of which are complete, and published as part of the Guide. I'm very pleased with them (but then I might be biased) ...do take a look at them, please. One of them is French Music 1870 - 1945 ; the other is Baroque Music.

The Lost Poetry Office will take great care of your favourite poems. Would you like to dedicate a poem to someone? Leave a message at the Office ... or just go there and read some of the dedications and poems - go on - it makes a pleasant break.



Do drop in for a chat. Otherwise I can be found at odd hours in this bar and\or the Crossed Purposes Pub and\or Cabin 13 - The Lighthouse Bar - usually in the current round.


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RESEARCHER DATA
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Kes
Last posted: Mar 30, 2009
Researcher Number:

139239

Referenced Entries:

Southwold. Suffolk, UK
Hampstead, London, UK
Perth, Western Australia
Prague, Czech Republic
Zaventem, Belgium
Baroque Music
The Crossed Purposes Pub
Lost Poetry Office
French Music (1870 - 1945)
Wind force twelve abaft the Beam

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JOURNAL
Mozart Requiem - Reconstruction
Aug 16, 2000

The Requiem was the last piece that M wrote, and he left it incomplete.
Some sections he dictated to friends, rather than wrote himself.
Others he only sketched.
After his death, several contemporaries added contributions to complete the work.
In the 1800s, Schulmeyer reviewed the score, and produced what was regarded as the definitive version.
This is the one usually performed today.

Last night, Robert Levin (Head of Harvard Music School) ran a small seminar in which he attempted
to get to an authentic version of the Requiem. I found it a great experience.
Instead of looking at it along a timeline (see above), he looked at it in terms of degrees of authenticity.
He started by stripping the score back to leave only those parts for which autograph manuscripts
(in M's own writing) exist. Then he added parts sketched in M's hand.
Finally, he had trawled through M's jottings (he would write down a couple of bars from one idea,
then some from another ... on scraps of paper). This produced a small amount of "new" material.
Particularly, one item was 5 bars of an "Amen" in D minor - valid 'cos M only wrote one Requiem (it's in D minor).

Then he looked at sections that were manuscript, but someone else's handwriting. He applied the rules
of style that M adhered to. This was fascinating
- he identified a long section which had never been questioned before,
and pointed out sequences of parallel fifths in the inner parts - something M hated.
So this (and many other scripts) were declared not authentic, and were binned.

This left material not in M's hand, but in M's style, so which may have been dictated. This material was
carefully re-introduced into the score.

We scraped together a small group of student musicians and singers, and gave it a go. Great!
Only trouble is, there's no recording of this version - yet.

Discuss this entry - 24 replies - Latest reply: Jan 4, 2001



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