Program notes
Notes on the arrangements
Longer notes on particular features of the program, for listeners who would like to know what they are hearing and why it has been placed where it is. The notes concern the arrangements, not the records.
01The notes
- No. 1
20182,000 wordsOn the mu major
A definition, six examples, a limit in the low register and a fingering. What the bright chords are, what they are not, and why they ask for nothing.
- No. 2
20181,300 wordsOn not reproducing the “Peg” solo
Forty-one prepared takes of a guitar solo, recorded between 2011 and 2019. None is used. The bars remain.
- No. 3
20191,200 wordsWhy the rhythm section is prepared
On drums, bass and time, and why 4.0 percent of the program’s hours are sufficient for them.
- No. 4—
The interval as a structural element
In preparation.
02Interval in Mu
An original piece of forty seconds, played at the close of each interval to indicate that the interval has closed.
Four chords over a held C in the pedals, each a mu major placed over a different bass relationship. The chords are Examples 1, 4, 6 and 1 of the note On the mu major. The piece was written in 2018 and is the only original composition in the program. It is recorded in the arrangement log at 26 hours.
