The day so far

[mdlbear]

Finished my tech-report writing today. Yay! About the only thing left is copying some flowcharts into one report from where they've been languishing in a different directory. That may involve convincing dia to export them as eps.

Lunch at Buck's with the flower_cat, telynor, and her stepdaughter mokatiki. Good food, good conversation. Brought up the subject of my next album long enough to make it qualify as a business lunch. "The Stolen Child", the way I arranged it, is just crying out for wire-strung harp. Only problem is that I sing it capoed up to Cm, which is not a good key for harp. Have to see whether I can move it down to Am and not sound like a bullfrog with laryngitis.

Alternatively, and maybe better, the chorus is mostly in C. Just the first three lines of the chorus? Come to think of it, taken as a whole the thing's probably impossible to play on a diatonic instrument. It should be possible to cheat, however.

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[hrj.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, taken as a whole the thing's probably impossible to play on a diatonic instrument.

As long as you're not trying to play the melody note-for-note, and as long as you don't mind a bit of a challenge (and perhaps some tuning adjustments), the diatonicity of the harp isn't an impediment to accompaniments for any number of bizarre keys and modes.

[mdlbear]

Good points. I'll probably end up writing out the sheet music and letting the experts worry about which parts of it are playable on which instruments.