{"id":1647,"date":"2013-02-04T19:06:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2013-02-04T19:13:22","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T23:13:22","slug":"in-search-of-mozart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1647","title":{"rendered":"In Search of Mozart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annoying thing about creativity is that it changes its obsessions abruptly and uncontrollably. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got only two scenes left to write for the novel I&#8217;ve been working on for a year and a half, and what does my mind want to do now? \u00a0It wants to study Mozart&#8217;s work and write music. \u00a0(At least it&#8217;s cultured, I guess.) \u00a0So I spent the last few days working on this little &#8220;mini-concerto&#8221; for piano and orchestra, Piano Concerto No 0, Opus 67:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m6JDVXY1uac?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I number it &#8216;0&#8217; because it is meant as more of an exercise than a &#8220;real&#8221; effort.  As you might guess, it was written while studying Mozart&#8217;s harmony.  In fact, the harmony and voice leading of the first section was almost completely blatantly plagiarized from one of Mozart&#8217;s piano concertos.  (Figure out which one, if you dare.)  But the point of the exercise wasn&#8217;t so much to be harmonically original as it was to try playing around with these classical sorts of cadences, inversions, secondary dominants, secondary leading-tone chords, and circle-of-fifth sequences.  Most of my music is harmonically super simple, just root-position chords progressing through diatonic triads, such as I-iii-IV-V or I-vi-IV-V (my favorites).  I hardly ever use sevenths or inversions or the ugly vii&deg;.  I&#8217;m not necessarily trying to change my &#8220;style&#8221;, but I would certainly like to expand it.  Who wouldn&#8217;t?  Plus, I love Mozart, so I&#8217;d like to try to understand how he and other master composers keep their chromaticism so beautifully tonic.<\/p>\n<p>Structurally, the above piece is rather lazy.  It begins in sonata form, then half-way through the development it section, it repeats and ends.  I guess the repeat can count as recapitulation?  No?  Oh well.  I was ready to move on.  I&#8217;ve never been a sonata-form fan.<\/p>\n<p>While I was working on this piece, I also got some ideas on how to expand my melody generator into a full-blown symphony generator.  So I&#8217;ve got some programming experiments to try, but they will take a lot of work.  So&#8230; the Mozart Symphony Generator, coming soon&#8230; (we can dream at least)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The annoying thing about creativity is that it changes its obsessions abruptly and uncontrollably. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got only two scenes left to write for the novel I&#8217;ve been working on for a year and a half, and what does my mind want to do now? \u00a0It wants to study Mozart&#8217;s work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[203],"tags":[663,118],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-qz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}