Richard Burdick's Immune Boost for English horn, horn, harp, 'cello

I had many details to work out . . .
You can watch and hear the whole work here now:
http://i-ching-music.com/Opus256-35.html

Richard Burdick's Bacchus for solo oboe, Op. 3 (1980)

A new demo is up on youtube:



To hear the whole work please visit:

http://i-ching-music.com/opus3.html

Richard Burdick's CD48: Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi motets arr. for horn ...

This is my third CD's release since the Covid thing started.

(Also, my first book waiting for final approval from smashword.)



https://richardoburdick.bandcamp.com/album/giovanni-giacomo-gastoldis-music-arranged-for-horn-choir

Richard Burdick's CD46 A Rainbow of I Ching Triads, Op. 188

Fanfare for woodwind quartet, Op. 29b by Richard Burdick (1987)

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Tuba Sonata, Op. 28 (1985) by Richard Burdick DEMO

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On scales of dynamics

A composer deals with music notation. There is always a balance between accuracy of notating ones musical ideas and the allowance for musicians to have self-expression through written music.



In notation composers have used different scales of volume. It started with a notation of loud and soft in the mannheim school with F and P, and has evolved to a system where we generally use 6 steps of volume - PP, P, MP, MF, F & FF - from really soft to really loud. But some composers, notably Tchaikovsky uses really soft as PPPP or more P's and really loud as FFFF or more F's. But Tchaikovsky's scale of dynamics can't be softer than really soft or louder than really loud. In the notation  of six dynamics it goes from really soft to really loud, as does the scale of ten dynamics with four P's and up to four F's, so in interpreting volume in music one need to be aware of such things as if the composer notates for example ten different dynamics or six. An F would be softer in a scale of ten than a F in a scale of 6 dynamics. The more dynamics the more gradual the scale.

The more dynamics the more gradual the scale.