Music in dreams

This morning I dreamed I was John Williams, a new experience for me. I
don't know what their relationship was in real life, but in my dream,
as Williams, I wanted to do a homage to my friend colleague Jerry
Goldsmith, and worked some Star Trek thematic material into the score
of a soundtrack for a space opera I was composing.

I'd be interested to hear what experiences other people have with
dream music; with me it's often a pastiche, as this was with the
styles of Williams and Goldsmith. I sometimes tell the story (mostly
because it was so funny when I recalled the dream) of when I listened
to Richard Nixon perform his latest piano concerto. Watching the
heavily-jowled Nixon play his concerto dressed in tails wasn't funny
at the time, however. I was mostly annoyed at the blatant way Nixon
had ripped off Liszt, right down to a triangle in the orchesta. I also
thought his playing was technically accomplished, but lacked depth.

> This morning I dreamed I was John Williams, a new experience for me. I
> don't know what their relationship was in real life, but in my dream,
> as Williams, I wanted to do a homage to my friend colleague Jerry
> Goldsmith, and worked some Star Trek thematic material into the score
> of a soundtrack for a space opera I was composing.

Funny enough, i did in fact use the eight note "Star Trek Theme" as
base for my string quartet, though i ONLY used the retrogade, inverse
and RI forms of it without the original:

http://www.angelfire.com/mo/oljare/midicomp.html

/Ö

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, "Gene Ward Smith" <gwsmith@s...>
wrote:
>
> This morning I dreamed I was John Williams, a new experience
> for me. I don't know what their relationship was in real life,
> but in my dream, as Williams, I wanted to do a homage to my
> friend colleague Jerry Goldsmith, and worked some Star Trek
> thematic material into the score of a soundtrack for a space
> opera I was composing.
>
> I'd be interested to hear what experiences other people have
> with dream music; with me it's often a pastiche, as this was
> with the styles of Williams and Goldsmith.

in a letter Mahler wrote, he once said something to the effect
that "Beethoven and Wagner visit me nightly in my dreams
these days ... not bad company, eh?".

> I sometimes tell
> the story (mostly because it was so funny when I recalled
> the dream) of when I listened to Richard Nixon perform his
> latest piano concerto. Watching the heavily-jowled Nixon
> play his concerto dressed in tails wasn't funny at the time,
> however. I was mostly annoyed at the blatant way Nixon
> had ripped off Liszt, right down to a triangle in the
> orchesta. I also thought his playing was technically
> accomplished, but lacked depth.

i would love to have witnessed that performance!

-monz

--- In metatuning@yahoogroups.com, Mats Öljare <oljare@h...> wrote:

> Funny enough, i did in fact use the eight note "Star Trek Theme" as
> base for my string quartet, though i ONLY used the retrogade, inverse
> and RI forms of it without the original:

It's still quite audible in there, even so.

> http://www.angelfire.com/mo/oljare/midicomp.html

What would you say to my rendering some of your midis and uploading
them as I've done with a few other people?