To Aaron

Aaron, you wrote:

"Very nice! I like a man who's not afraid of ostinato. You didn't bore
me for one minute--the lines were nice and sinuous. Beautiful
seductive melody.

I'm curious what your setup is...what do enter notes with, etc.
My one complaint would perhaps be I miss the human expressive
live-player element, and the piano part is particularly
mono-chromatic, but your music is good enough to overcome this---
i.e. I can imagine it being great to hear by live players. Hats off!"

This piece was composed with, and performed by, Harmony Assistant. Notes
are entered into a score either by mouse (my method), keypad or midi
keyboard. And I agree -- I'd rather hear this performed live!

"BTW, I found as I was listening to this that I heard a certain tinge
of Philip Glass (the *better* Glass, i.e.--I find him uneven),
particularly in his movie scores...and believe it or not, a sort of
vague Spanish flavor, which is a very good thing, IMO---I can picture
Spanish gypsy fiddlers doing this one--I'm also dying to hear what
this would sound like with an almost flamenco-like festive percussion
part.

I'd be willing to give that a whirl if you'd lend me the MIDI file (if
you didn't want to do it yourself)

All best,
Aaron."

Thanks for the kind comments! When I finished Rustic Dance and
re-listened to the whole thing front-to-back, I thought: "Gee, that
kinda sounds like Gypsy music..." I was going to call it Gypsy Melody
but thought better of it -- genuine Gypsies might take offense at having
their music being so maligned!

I'd be happy to send you the midi file to play with, but please be a bit
patient -- I'm in the midst of completing several projects concurrently.
I'll get it to you directly.

Regards,

jls

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