Keith D. Jones's Blog, page 13
April 5, 2011
News: Somewhere Score Typo
Fixed the typo in the lyrics of Somewhere. I'm not used to dealing with Sibelius' lyrics entry tool. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
April 4, 2011
News: Outgrabe for Solo Flute Score
The PDF score for the Outgrabe for Solo Flute has been uploaded. It was comissioned by a fellow student who never performed it herself. I had to find someone willing to give it a try. Musicians are flakes, did you know? This is also the one that only got performed in a composers' recital because I managed to hide it from the composition faculty until the actual performance. The look on my professor's face when the performer started to play was priceless.
April 3, 2011
News: Somewhere Score
The PDF version of the score for Somewhere is finally available. I did make some minor changes from the Sibelius Scorch version that used to live here. Score no longer says for oboe and piano. Probably had enough people wondering how the oboist was supposed to sing and play. It's scored for tenor voice, but I simply never could trick anyone into performing it. So, I marked it for oboe in the hopes that my cousin might take a shot at it. The oboe and tenor ranges kind-of sort-of overlapping. I really got into the word painting when composing, which simply drove the composition faculty mad, and gave me my first real sense that grad. school conditions were gonig to deteriorate rather fast.
March 27, 2011
Journal: Unfinished Epic Fantasy Series
So, this is from that short list of things that have been hanging out in the back of my mind and I thought might make for a good journal entry someday if I could ever muster enough time and interest to actually try writing it down.
I don't know how I hear about these things. Like noise just buzzing around. Somehow, you hear about things without really thinking about how you know. Heard somewhere. Read somewhere. Never paid that much attention until suddenly it is there. Spontaneous cognition, so to speak.
Apparently, there are these great epic fantasy book series. Loved by a great many people. New York Times bestsellers and all of that. But, don't get me started on the bestseller lists. I can't remember if it was a This American Life story or something similar that took the shine off those lists.
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March 26, 2011
Podcast: The Faire Folk of Gideon, chapter 41
News: Outgrabe for Violin and Double Bass Score
The PDF version of the score for the Outgrabe for Violin & Double Bass is finally available on the music page. Now that the big eBook project is done I can finally get back to other annoyingly neglected little projects. Fun facts about this piece. It was comissioned by a fellow student after she heard the Outgrabe for Clarinet & Piano. It was also the last time I worked with the composition faculty. After this one, it all went downhill as I started to clash with them more and more. For people who claimed they wanted us to find our own voices, they sure got unhappy when we didn't sound exactly like them.
March 19, 2011
News: Don't Mess with Science T-shirts
It just occured to me that there isn't a single link on my website to the String Finger Theatre Don't Mess with Science T-shirts and coffee mugs that are available at Cafe Press. They've been available forever. I really should remember to tell people they exist since purchasing a T-shirt is yet another way to support my work.
News: eBooks Available for Kindle
All three novels—The Magic Flute, The Faire Folk of Gideon & The Etymology of Fire—are available for the Amazon Kindle and whatever smartphone or tablet computer that can handle the Kindle app. Supposedly, they are also going to be available through Apple's iBook app, but I don't really have a way to verify when that happens since Lulu.com is dealing with it.
March 6, 2011
News: eBooks Available at Lulu.com
In addition to the DRM-free ePub copies of The Etymology of Fire, The Magic Flute and The Faire Folk of Gideon that you can download from my website for free, you can now purchase the eBooks from Lulu.com. That's right. You can pay $3 per eBook for something already available for free. The big difference between the two copies is one says on the copyright page that if you like please buy and the other says if you didn't buy please buy, which is a weak differencce—I know—but there you are. The reason you would pay money would be to support the author, which would be a really, really nice thing for you to do. Hopefully, Lulu will by able to follow through on its claim of distribution partners, and the eBooks will start showing up in places like Apple's iBookstore. I have no idea how long this will take or even if it will work. Availability through Amazon.com is something I will still have to do myself so I don't know exactly how long it will take, but hopefully will happen in the next couple of weeks. No promises. This is all part of the modified Web Comics' Model that I am quite determined to follow.
March 2, 2011
News: The Magic Flute ePub Format
That's all of them. The Magic Flute has been uploaded in ePub format. That makes all three books available online in all three formats. I still need to go through all the bother of putting an ePub copy available at Lulu.com, which means I have to figure out how much to charge. We shall see.
