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| | | <title>Phlegethon</title> |
| | | <description> |
| | | Recording of a piano solo I wrote called "Phlegethon" |
| | | </description> |
| | | <category>Music</category> |
| | | <category>Music recording</category> |
| | | <category>Piano</category> |
| | | <series order="32">2022 music project</series> |
| | | </glacius:metadata> |
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| | | <p> |
| | | Since I've been |
| | | <glacius:link page="music/projects/chopin-scherzo-no-2-arpeggios-recording">playing</glacius:link> |
| | | the <glacius:link category="Piano">piano</glacius:link> a lot lately, I figured my hands |
| | | were in decent shape so I should just keep it going. This is |
| | | a piece I wrote some time ago that's basically a bunch of loud right-hand arpeggios. |
| | | And since <glacius:link page="music/projects/chopin-revolutionary-etude-recording">last |
| | | week</glacius:link> my left hand got a workout it's only fitting that my right hand gets one |
| | | too. Don't read too much into it… |
| | | </p> |
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| | | <p> |
| | | <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegethon">Phlegethon</a> is one of the |
| | | five infernal rivers (the most famous of which is <em>Styx</em>). Apparently it |
| | | translates to "flaming" from Greek. |
| | | </p> |
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| | | <blockquote><p> |
| | | The third river issues forth midway between these two, and close to its point of |
| | | exit it emerges into a vast region burning with a lot of fire, and it makes a lake of |
| | | boiling water and mud larger than the sea in our region.47 It proceeds in a circle |
| | | from there, foul 113B and muddy, winding about through the earth in various places |
| | | and arrives at the shores of the Acherusian lake without commingling with its |
| | | waters. After many windings under the earth, it discharges beneath Tartarus and |
| | | this is the river they refer to as Periphlegethon, and from this the lava streams |
| | | shoot forth their branches from the earth in a random manner.<glacius:cite>Taken |
| | | from <a href="https://cdn.platonicfoundation.org/2021/04/platos-phaedo-english-translation-by-david-horan.pdf">this |
| | | translation, location <strong>112b</strong></a></glacius:cite> |
| | | </p></blockquote> |
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| | | <p> |
| | | Plato was pretty metal. |
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| | | <p> |
| | | This could've been better, but my technique isn't that great so my arm gets |
| | | tired after playing it. I did seven takes over the course of ~10 minutes, |
| | | three of which I actually played the whole thing to completion, and chose the |
| | | best of those. |
| | | </p> |
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| | | <glacius:figure |
| | | glacius:src="phlegethon-480p.mp4" |
| | | glacius:thumbnail="phlegethon-poster.jpeg" |
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| | | <caption> |
| | | Performance of my original piece <em>Phlegethon</em> |
| | | <small>(recorded on <glacius:date value="2022-08-16" />)</small> |
| | | </caption> |
| | | </glacius:figure> |
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| | | <glacius:figure glacius:src="phlegethon-transcription-sample.png" type="image"> |
| | | <caption>And then more of this for 90 seconds.</caption> |
| | | </glacius:figure> |
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| | | <h2>Downloads</h2> |
| | | <ul> |
| | | <li><glacius:link file="phlegethon.pdf">Transcription (pdf)</glacius:link></li> |
| | | <li><glacius:link file="phlegethon.ly">Lilypond source</glacius:link></li> |
| | | </ul> |
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