Yesterday’s afternoon was spent immersing myself in Leo
Sowerby’s Passacaglia for organ. Well, as much as I could. I have the
recording. I found that on Sunday. I know I own a copy of the score. But, most
of my energy was spent in search of the elusive music. I have no idea where the
book is. I play other pieces from it, so it’s possible that I left it somewhere
I played as a substitute. I just don’t remember playing any of the pieces in
the book and there’s no note that I loaned it to someone. (I’m careful about
that as I don’t mind loaning out my music. And most everyone is as forgetful as
I am, so I make notes so that I can let someone know who has my copy.)
I did discover something during a break from tearing apart
my stacks/boxes of music: I forgot a picot on day 4 of the TIAS 2013. I only went
looking as several others mentioned they noticed they had forgotten the picot.
Since it’s a VSP (very small picot) I was able to squeegle enough thread out of
the surrounding DS to give myself a loop.
I still have some good ideas for a pattern based on the
organ piece. You see, a Passacaglia is a piece that repeats a theme. Good fodder
for tatting. And Sowerby’s harmonic language is not completely random. Good
fodder for tatting. Not only does he use the same key center throughout, he
also uses a constant rhythmic drive. Good fodder for tatting. It may very well
take me until next summer to finish the design. Sigh.
In the meantime, I get to look for my score and listen to
the music a few more times.
