Hawkshadow

[eclectic_boy]

I went to the Crum this afternoon to soak up the low-60s sunshine and see how much blooming had occurred there in the past week. Most of the trees are still bare, with only a tiny powdering of buds to indicate that they're waking up. I read some more of Iain Banks' Inversions while on Alligator Rock high above the Creek (is that nickname still used? I mean the outcropping just north of the Science Center, with the wooden steps leading to it).

After half an hour I wandered back along the trail, and stopped to read some more atop a fallen tree. While I was there a shadow swept by, like when a plane passes in front of the Sun. I looked up and there were two... then three, then *five* raptors gliding over the valley. I think they were hawks, though I only saw them as silhouettes. They soared around for five minutes, spending most of their time circling above the rock I had just left---darn---before heading further upcreek.

Comments

[eclectic-boy.livejournal.com]

Yes, but actually in the notes he says that some of the seventh-chord progressions in the Bagatelles were based on things he learned while experimenting with microtonal temperings, some of which were applicable to regular tonal music. These pieces sound something like Brahms, in fact.

[think-too-much.livejournal.com]

The 19-note equal temperament can sound almost tonal, if you cherry-pick the right seven notes. I think that particular etude was in an A-B-A form where the B form modulated through all nineteen "keys" along the tuning's own demented circle of fifths.

It's a pity I don't actually remember the piece itself.