Kieren,
Lovely, in all regards. I'm so grateful that you have made this score
available. I had no idea this piece existed. I, too, have just heard it
on SoundCloud, and I love it.
I'm a classic guitarist, and for many of us the word "Chaconne" has
immediate and galvanizing connotations. Every since Segovia
simultaneously amazed and scandalized Paris by playing Bach's Chaconne
(that's how we refer to it - that says it all) in a recital, we've
tended to think we own the piece. I, for one, think of it as two
different pieces, both by Bach. One is for violin, and it's awesome. The
other is for classic guitar, and it's beyond description, although
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is reputed to have once remarked to American
guitarist Christopher Parkening once that it is "simply the greatest
piece of music ever written."
And now there's another Chaconne to consider, one with delightful modern
qualities. I'm about to print it out and begin adapting it to guitar. I
have no real qualifications for doing it, except love for Bach, guitar,
and Chaconnes. I'm going to do it anyway.
And by the way, I think the score looks lovely.
I will also further investigate the rest of your corpus, to the extent I can. You have much intrigued me. I, too, compose, but only for my instrument. I'm intrigued by what you've written and I want to hear and learn more.
Thanks again, so very much, for your generosity.
Tom
On 02/07/2015 12:51 PM, Kieren MacMillan wrote:
Hello all!
Just a note to announce my newest Lilypond engraving: my Chaconne for unaccompanied violin (2001).
(You can download the score at <http://kierenmacmillan.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Chaconne_letter.pdf>.)
There are still some improvements I’m planning to make over the next little while — for me, tweaking the engraving of a score can be as endless as revising the composition itself ;) — and it’s not going to win any international music publication awards (cf. Urs & Janek!).
All that being said, I’m pretty proud of it. Despite the fact that the piece was written almost fourteen years ago, and has had multiple performances and even a commercial CD recording, this is the first time I’ve made the score available to the public: the original score, engraved using the now-defunct Igor Engraver, never lived up to my aesthetic standards, and in fact was the reason I ended up moving to Lilypond the following year.
Thanks to everyone in the ‘Pond, especially: the development team, old (Han-Wen et al.) and new (David K. and David N. et al.); Jan-Peter, for the \editionEngraver (which saved hours of frustration making this score look the way it does); and all those who have given me great assistance on the list over the years.
I included a little shout-out to Lilypond in the score’s Colophon — my way of continuing to tell the world that Lilypond makes the most beautiful scores.
All the best,
Kieren.
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