::shakes his tiny fists at Big Music::

After last week’s unproductive grappling with MuseScore and Dorico, I decided today that I would simply go back to pencil and paper to hammer out “Cecil’s theme” for this orchestral suite I’ve nailed myself to.

Cecil being his usual helpful self.

Do not misunderstand me: I cannot actually compose an orchestral suite on paper like composers have done for centuries. I can probably do a reasonably coherent piano score to start with, with nothing more than pencil and paper — I have done so in the past for William Blake’s Inn and some other larger works — but soon enough I will have to force myself to learn one of the programs so I can make all the necessary SUCCESSIVE APPROXIMATIONS needed to it sound like someone with composition classes in their past wrote it.

In the meantime, enjoy Cecil’s attempts at being an Assistive Feline™.

Here he is inspecting my Moleskine music notebook.

And here he is immediately after the above photo.

Why yes, that is my Moleskine music notebook he has blobbed out on. And yes, that is a perfectly good cat bed that he is sleeping next to.

Apparently he is of the opinion that I’ve done all the work I need to do on this piece today. He’s probably not wrong.

I will try to wrestle my notes into a piano score before Wednesday’s post so you can start to suffer along with me.

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UPDATE: It is now clear that he has determined that it is best I give up on working at this point, since it is probably maybe going to be time for supper noms any minute now and I should be aware that he thinks so.