How will silence fit in to your medley composition? The silence should be heard to give sound a renewed role and emotive being in the music. As John Cage posited, music sounds completely different when there is silence.

Maybe throw in something à la a Hindu Raga – a medley composed on tones (maybe tunes in this context) which are attributed to a colour. For that matter then, based on the energy it generates, what time of the day will your medley be best suited for to be played.

What colour is the sky in your World’s?

Thanks for your note, John.

Acadian, eh. Let’s see.

M

In the mid 80′s a good grade 2 band from Canada’s east coast started their medley with an air………well, the comments where plentiful , some positive some very negative. But the feeling in the band was wow…..we got people talking , a little grade 2 band from the east coast caused a stir , there was a great deal of pride taken from that.

I guess my message here is there is more then just the prize. That band could not wait to see what else they could do, it energized the band, the band went into the fall charged up, more so then any prize that was won that summer, ….oh yea….there were some prizes won as well.

The whole medley thing is wide open, if we choose it to be! Like your waulking song beginner, the slow air starter……not sure what else is out there, but I am sure we will soon see something cool on here…….as Greigc1 pointed out the Bulgarian time signature, maybe some Acadian flavour

Looking forward to this exercise.

As an aside, if you really want to push the boundaries, how about opening this thread up in terms of allowing users to subit “snippets” of their own tastes for inclusion? Perhaps we can use this as an excercise to test out if we are all “dullards”, or if with a little forward thinking we can progress into new styles?

One thing that strikes me as familiar with this topic is how much of an impact that the compositions of David Barnes, Mark Saul and Murray Blair have had on my playing and musical taste. These lads at the height of their powers were certainly not of the dullard variety! A bit of seven sixteen bulgarian time anyone?