We're sitting here at my usual spot in the Gotham City library on Buckingham Palace Road, and there are 4 Apple Mac's (including Brian) all tic-tap-netting away. Those far-off days when Apple was but a glitch in the market saturation of Bill Gates' mighty Microsoft monolith...
I've been composing a setting of the new translation of the Mass these past few weeks, and am quite pleased with how it's coming along. I can actually sing bits of it to myself from memory during the morning swim (in my head, obviously!) I've gone for a simple setting of the parts plus Alleluia and a Hail Mary, Glory Be etc. Still to do are the Creed and the Agnus. I've been listening to the Nelson Mass for a little while, partly as homework for Medici and also to get used to a setting that I don't know by one of the greats, that has essentially single word writing per note: the Haydn sorta rattles through a bit: I'm not ready for the Bach B minor style treatment as yet of multiple movements per part of the Mass - trying to be fairly practical for the moment.
I think if could do one strand of music work alone it would be composition: it contains all the other disciplines in a way, and such are the wonders of Sibelius 6 music writing software, it's all possible. The creativity is allowed pretty much free rein, and I've only felt hindered once or twice by my lack of a completely thorough knowledge of the system. Praise the Lord for providing the facility of the music library so close to home and just around the corner to my Belgravia office, Newton's Nest.
My Apple Mac, Brian, loves it here. Hanging with the younger models, surfing the net with the cool student crowd, the free power point, the free internet (that usually is working and is pretty quick): he's in a very happy mood, working nicely, doing his stuff, tic-tap-netting away. Good Brian, nice Brian.
One day I reckon these things will come alive and I don't think it's going to be good news... more like book of Revelation than the gospel...
Better crack on with that Mass setting before Mass gets forbidden.
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