{"id":300,"date":"2015-06-09T04:27:40","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T04:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2015-06-10T04:31:02","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T04:31:02","slug":"rapido-day-1-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/rapido-day-1-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapido Day 1 &#8211; The Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rapido contest specs are theme and variations for clarinet, violin and piano. It&#8217;s a nice plan for a two-week sprint. I had been thinking about writing another piece for my friends in the Opal Ensemble, which is clarinet, viola and piano, so maybe I&#8217;ll be able to adapt this one. It&#8217;s better not to think about that now &#8212; focus on the potential of the violin, not of limiting the part to a lower common baseline.<\/p>\n<p>I created my theme right away. It&#8217;s got several short phrases that contrast &#8212; a singing and sighing legato, a cascade of notes, and a rhythmic fragment for the closure. There&#8217;s a lot of material to vary. I worked on a variation first, then gave some thought to fleshing out the orchestration and accompaniment of the theme. I wrote down the theme on staff paper and recorded some improvs in Digital Performer. As I worked on each bit, I got it notated in Sibelius and continued tweaking and revising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rapido contest specs are theme and variations for clarinet, violin and piano. It&#8217;s a nice plan for a two-week sprint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[13,135],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composing","tag-composing","tag-rapido"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spindrift.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}