{"id":39855,"date":"2017-11-20T16:30:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T21:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=39855"},"modified":"2017-11-20T23:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T04:39:25","slug":"hoary-old-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hoary-old-tune\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoary old tune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While cleaning house a few days ago, I unearthed the first piece of music I ever wrote. It&#8217;s a piano rag, written half a lifetime ago for the first music theory class I was able to fit into my schedule.<span id='easy-footnote-1-39855' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hoary-old-tune\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-39855' title='The music department at Wichita State University offered a four-semester sequence of theory and aural skills classes. All the sections of a class met at the same time, so the students could be grouped by ability. This was great if you were a freshman or sophomore music major. If you were a senior in another college with a complicated schedule juggling classes and a job, it was not so wonderful. In all the too many years I spent at WSU, I was able to take only one other theory class.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> I was curious to see how it sounded after all these years. I could barely play it when I wrote it, and I&#8217;m way out of practice these days, so I transcribed it into Logic and let the computer play it.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-39855-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hairy-Toes-grandeur.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hairy-Toes-grandeur.mp3\">http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hairy-Toes-grandeur.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>It&#8217;s not as bad as I feared, but not as good as I hoped. Don&#8217;t look for the score on my sheet music page. I didn&#8217;t really know what I was doing then<span id='easy-footnote-2-39855' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hoary-old-tune\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-39855' title='Not that I do now.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, and it shows. The title is &#8220;Hairy Toes.&#8221; Please don&#8217;t ask me to explain that, or what I had in mind in the penultimate section.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Uploaded a recording with a different virtual piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cleaning house a few days ago, I unearthed the first piece of music I ever wrote. It&#8217;s a piano rag, written half a lifetime ago for the first music theory class I was able to fit into my schedule. I was curious to see how it sounded after all these years. I could barely &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hoary-old-tune\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hoary old tune&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-amP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39855"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39875,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39855\/revisions\/39875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}