August 02, 2015

Some highlights from the past week:

• co-designed a book cover for a novel to be released by Trabant Books, a new division of Zwillinge
• wrote documentation and prepared the product page for new software from Mather Point Software — PDF Bookmaker
• fixed the reported bugs for MIDITapper beta cycle 47 and released beta 48 through H-Pi Instruments
• added mp3 and wav download purchasing to Zwillinge Verlag website for 24 Preludes and Fugues, which included preparing the zip files and writing a license document

Today's organ practice lasted six hours. Part of the time was spent with hymns and liturgy for an upcoming subbing job. Mostly I was reading through a lot of Bach. I decided to learn BWV545 Fugue in C Major, so played through it very slowly many times. An interesting factoid about this particular piece is that there are numerous suspended fourths against thirds — something that counterpoint students are taught is wrong. Bach actually did it fairly often, but of course it's a sophisticated thing. I teach students never to voice the third and fourth together, even though it's part of the style. To do it right requires higher level knowledge and experience students don't have. Maybe I'll show some examples of what I'm talking about in the next blog post. For now, I'm fairly exhausted.