Where are you flutistically?

flutepicc06 · Post by **flutepicc06** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 6:46 pm

Meredith wrote:If Ibert and Nielson are 4, what gets a 5? Rodrigo?

I believe 5's are reserved for modern music employing extended effects and unusual notation.

fluteguy18 · Post by **fluteguy18** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 7:50 pm

that would make sense.

MeLizzard · Post by **MeLizzard** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:04 pm

The 5s are by such composers as Robert Dick, Larsen, some Fukushima, Will Offermans, mostly contemporary and almost always unaccompanied. The Berio Sequenza is only a 4(!?!). The Ibert concerto, Prokofiev sonata, Liebermann's big pieces, and a couple of the French things are 4s, and most of the standard rep into the late-middle 20th century is considered a 3. Our technical bar just keeps climbing--imagine where it'll be in 20 more years!?.

flutepicc06 · Post by **flutepicc06** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:05 pm

MeLizzard wrote:Robert Dick, Larsen, some Fukushima, Will Offermans, mostly contemporary and almost always unaccompanied. The Berio Sequenza is only a 4(!?!). The Ibert concerto, Prokofiev sonata, Liebermann's big pieces, and a couple of the French things are 4s, and most of the standard rep into the late-middle 20th century is considered a 3. Our technical bar just keeps climbing--imagine where it'll be in 20 more years!?.

Soon they'll have to have those robotic flute players to handle what composers'll be writing.

MeLizzard · Post by **MeLizzard** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:06 pm

Just about...

fluteguy18 · Post by **fluteguy18** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:27 pm

Yep... just about. And they are working on that too..... http://www.larrykrantz.com

go to the home page. Scroll to the bottom. There is a link about robotic flutists...... ewwww

flutepicc06 · Post by **flutepicc06** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:32 pm

fluteguy18 wrote:Yep... just about. And they are working on that too..... http://www.larrykrantz.com

go to the home page. Scroll to the bottom. There is a link about robotic flutists...... ewwww

I know! I've read that, and watched the anthropomorphic flutists evolve....they're getting better, but still aren't anywhere close to where they would need to be to replace humans. I still think it's amazing that they could build a robot to play flute!

fluteguy18 · Post by **fluteguy18** » Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:54 pm

I know. I am just glad, that they probably wont replace us in our lifetime. Because, they still are sub-par. And once they are good enough, they will still cost a fortune. So, by the time they are cheap enough, we probably wont be around.

Meredith · Post by **Meredith** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 1:26 pm

I shudder at the thought -- I hate contemporary music! Even the harmonic note at the end of Ibert Concerto, Movt. 2, gives me the heebie-jeebies!

(ducks)

Random funny story -- In college, on a practice chemistry exam, we had to calculate the density of platinum. It took me all of three seconds to write down "21.5" with a huge flourish!

fluteguy18 · Post by **fluteguy18** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 7:53 pm

That IS funny. 21.5..... Density.... quite an interesting piece of music I must say.

flutepicc06 · Post by **flutepicc06** » Mon Dec 04, 2006 8:43 pm

fluteguy18 wrote:That IS funny. 21.5..... Density.... quite an interesting piece of music I must say.

That's a great piece...I want one to celebrate gold flutes.

MeLizzard · Post by **MeLizzard** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 2:45 pm

I've heard it's actually 21.46

fluteguy18 · Post by **fluteguy18** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 5:01 pm

:::sigh:::

Well, I guess for all practical reasons it should be called 21.5

I mean you dont hear people say the math number 'Pi" as 3.14159265358979.........

They just say Pi.

Meredith · Post by **Meredith** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:22 pm

Another funny math story. Absolutely no relation to the flute, but ties into Pi. Any math geeks out there will appreciate.

I had a HS friend who started college determined to graduate with an average of "Pi." Not because he thought that a 3.14 was the best he could do. He just thought it'd be increadibly cool to graduate with a "Pi" average. (Yes, science geeks, the whole lot of us.)

Anyway, when he realized that "Pi" wasn't going to happen, he decided to buckle down and shoot for "e", instead. Came pretty close to it, as I recall.

remnantpark · Post by **remnantpark** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:44 pm

Science geeks? (like me)
Something I would do. lol