I am posting this as a benchmark, not because I think I'm playing very well yet. The idea would be post a video every month for a ye...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Baskerville
I use baskerville as my default font on word documents. Today I see cited a study that says it make your prose sound smarter. Sans serif fonts make you sound dumber.
Hi Jonathan -- you expressed some interest in my song settings. I had recordings made of three of them: https://vmaverick.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/three-songs/. (Two self-contained Lieder, one aria or chunk from my Yeats opera project.)
I've found recently that for the lyrics in my scores, I like (New) Century Schoolbook, because it's wide and readable and unpretentious. Readers of a certain age (mine and perhaps yours) will associate it with Dick and Jane, and Highlights magazine in dentists' offices.
Go for it, I'm sure that would be a lot of fun. "The Lake Isle" is much more sonically rich and compact than the loose blank verse of "At the Hawk's Well". I didn't feel too bad about stomping all over the rhythm of this text, even cutting some words (which would destroy the scansion if the listener could hear it). There are a few strong lines here and there, plus some rhymed songs (including "Come to me, human faces", which is pretty good).
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Hi Jonathan -- you expressed some interest in my song settings. I had recordings made of three of them: https://vmaverick.wordpress.com/2021/03/17/three-songs/. (Two self-contained Lieder, one aria or chunk from my Yeats opera project.)
I've found recently that for the lyrics in my scores, I like (New) Century Schoolbook, because it's wide and readable and unpretentious. Readers of a certain age (mine and perhaps yours) will associate it with Dick and Jane, and Highlights magazine in dentists' offices.
Ah, forgot that links here are not automatically linkified. Proper link here.
Nice. I like the Yeats especially, with that rich baritone to sing it. It makes me want to set "The Lake Isle at Inisfree"
Thanks!
Go for it, I'm sure that would be a lot of fun. "The Lake Isle" is much more sonically rich and compact than the loose blank verse of "At the Hawk's Well". I didn't feel too bad about stomping all over the rhythm of this text, even cutting some words (which would destroy the scansion if the listener could hear it). There are a few strong lines here and there, plus some rhymed songs (including "Come to me, human faces", which is pretty good).
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