Teammate on most recent team gave me this parting feedback: “I learned a ton, we got lots done, our team dynamics were awesome, and I’ve never felt this kind of team feeling before.”

If your business makes software, I might be good for your business.

https://schmonz.com/snac/schmonz/p/1750949585.435936

After today, there’s one more of Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes, which is too bad, because this one (#8, “Secreto”) is perfect. Nothing left to take away.

I hope I’ll compose something like this someday. Shabbat shalom.

https://youtu.be/Nbvvvjnw164

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The next in Mompou’s set of Impressions Íntimes is #7, “Cuna”. The whole piece is underpinned by a very short and obstinately repeated bass figure for a smooth ride from start to finish.

https://youtu.be/09drHc4bnM4

#dailypiano #pianominiature #mompou

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A month and a half ago I started making daily half-to-3/4-assed recordings of very small, very quickly learned piano pieces.

Before I make today's recording, here's a new thing: what it looks like while I'm doing the learning. 20 minutes. https://youtu.be/Aj6wCkoennw

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Today, it’s Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes #6, “La barca”. Some chewy harmonies and passing tones, and a bunch of chances to make sense of them. The baby has understood to slow herself down.

https://youtu.be/_20nwn3sd_8

#daily #piano #dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalmusic #mompou

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Yesterday, after I lamented my home country having lost far more at its own hand than it ever lost to England, my home town became national news.

Today, more music. The next of Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes — the first w/subtitle — is #5, “Pájaro triste”.

https://youtu.be/HM19JI1cXeM

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature has a little more zoom. Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes #4:

https://youtu.be/1XbQB3ZpAME

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalmusic #classicalpiano #mompou

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Today in the USA, we're reminded that we consistently do far worse to ourselves than England's tyranny ever did. Happy Independence Memorial Day. May it lead us somewhere better.

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For today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature, it’s Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes #3. Your job while listening: imagine that D flat making its sound.

#daily #piano #pianominiatures #classical #classicalpiano #mompou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65oUeAOonig

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It’s July! Been doing this since May. Neat.

Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is the next in Mompou’s Impressions Íntimes. #2:

https://youtu.be/Ci6c7pZbqcI

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #classicalpiano #mompou

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https://youtu.be/4iezUgyvB8M

We continue today with more #Mompou. This #pianominiature opens a set of nine that’s named, rather appositely if’n you ask me, “Impressions Íntimes”.

#dailypiano #piano #pianominiatures #classicalmusic

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Today’s #dailypiano #pianominiature is from Mompou’s Cançons i danses (the cançó from #6). I’ve now put hands on all the piano ones except #14, for which I haven’t yet found the sheet music.

All of these are some of my favorites, and so is this one.

#piano #classicalmusic #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/snUSkav1k6A

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Today’s #dailypiano miniature is the second of Mompou’s Cançons i danses. Just the cançó, as is evidently my wont.

This sounds way cooler than it sounds like it sounds — spectral, atmospheric — but my daily effort budget maxes out at “put iPad on bookshelf and press record”.

#piano #pianomusic #pianominiature #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/esKCPbhgzLc

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@craigmaloney well crap, no way around it now, it’s been far too long since I watched Futurama

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@craigmaloney I’d personally benefit from a parenthetical quick definition of Melvar

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My parental leave can wind down now. Time to start thinking about work again, beginning with replying to a bunch of yinz who already sent ideas and leads (thanks, and keep ‘em coming!)

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Given a fine piano and a well prepared pianist, this excerpt (again just the opening Cançó from one of Mompou’s Cançons i danses, this time #3) is diaphanous, as ethereal as any real thing can be.

You’ll have to extrapolate. 🤣

#daily #piano #miniature #mompou #dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures

https://youtu.be/GZeeESyMVdk

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is again from Mompou’s Cançons i danses, again a Cançó without its corresponding danse. This is from #4.

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/CP0MuoSJAqo

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No new music today, but music is required today. Here's my very best shit.

This piece was born of loss, sorrow, alienation. Not a miniature; on the contrary, it's long enough and dense enough to for you to come out a little different than you went in.

https://youtu.be/Dt7xzgkIQR4

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The assignment: with 2 kids asleep, record 1 take, waking 0.

The solution: again taking a Canço from Mompou‘s Cançons i danses (#9), possibly with a flatter affect than the music desires. But a working solution!

#piano #daily #miniature #mompou

https://youtu.be/iQBkcG0CNjU

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We’re lucky my old piano can’t make all the needed sounds. If it could, I would have melted before reaching the end. This music moves me so directly.

Mompou again, Cançons i danses again, the Canço from #7.

https://youtu.be/chjUx_8Jfeo

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More Mompou, because it’s amazing stuff. So much color with so few notes. Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is the Cançó from Cançons i danses #12.

https://youtu.be/UUfCn_SZhV4

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Been practicing 1-day iterations for nearly a month now, delivering very small increments of decent music every day.

YouTube playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature continues the cherry-picking from Mompou’s Cançons i danses: the Cançó from #10.

#dailypiano #pianominiature #pianominiatures #mompou

https://youtu.be/IMwU-rRqFa4

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What I'm Doing Now: https://schmonz.com/now

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Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is again from Mompou’s Cançons i danses, this time the Cançó from #8.

https://youtu.be/H0v3THDd3Vw

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The composer I’m most influenced by, of course, is Medtner. You might be surprised to learn, after weeks of Scriabin’s tiniest gems, that my second-most composer is someone else: Mompou.

Today’s #daily #piano #miniature is the Canço from Mompou’s Cançons i danses #5.

https://youtu.be/_1Z7Zep0WcM

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@sevan@mastodon.sdf.org grazie!

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Today’s daily piano miniature (Scriabin Prelude Op. 11 #14) is a banger — or rather, when I play it, I’m rather banging around. Listen to this one for the energy, not (as with any of these) for the musical accuracy or audio quality.

About that energy: I’m still vibrating.

https://youtu.be/sDCQZ1s8Ook

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Today’s #daily #Scriabin #piano #miniature (Op. 15 #4) is in E. It‘s hard to follow the melody with so many C sharps missing. Can you count how many?

(Donations gratefully accepted — just reply with a recording of you singing or playing C sharp on your instrument of choice.)

https://youtu.be/if6DgUtEO-o

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I’m particularly smitten with this Scriabin Prelude (Op. 11 #8), and intend to come back later and learn it properly. As usual, could really use a working C sharp.

https://youtu.be/eaktWRCY_CE

#daily #piano #miniature #scriabin

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Today’s piece (Scriabin Prelude Op. 13 #1) isn’t so tiny, but that’s okay, I miniaturized the climactic moments in my bumbling.

https://youtu.be/15bTGD7f-4g

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A minute here, a minute there, pretty soon you’ve got a half hour of music.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkuryjnRFclQJqoIVpk9W9-eIRswejo-R

#daily #piano #miniature #scriabin

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@nikita I feel that. Been chronically especially short of time and patience for the last half year, and just chronically regularly short the several years before that. I miss being able to get lost in… anything. Lately my piano time has been on pieces that are mostly under two minutes long, because I can often eke out that much time.

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@nikita I don’t know your situation and I hope this attempt to be helpful isn’t shitty, but I went 7 years without pianoing and found my way back. https://schmonz.com/2007/11/14/medtner-music-and-me/ says a bit

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Updated reporting on the 1923 Baldwin with a non-striking D-flat/C-sharp: it is of course easier to hide the problem in G major, which today’s piece is sort of “in”. Scriabin Prelude Op. 13 #3: https://youtu.be/Ar47rjnC1Jo

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Can a Scriabin G-flat prelude (Op. 16 #3) be played with a non-striking D-flat? Our New York correspondent has the story. https://youtu.be/87WXkIRbJHo

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A little (and I mean little) Scriabin while the kids are in the bath.

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@ryan_harg thank you!

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Lazing around the backyard with baby the first.

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