Hello! I am A. J. Greengrove, and this is my website.

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Wherever The Wind Takes Me

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Is it the piece that started it all? I can’t remember how many pieces I had improvised this far, but obviously this one is shot with my worse, i.e. 1st webcam.

Some music theory notes to myself and others: in retrospect, I hear the piece as modal in nature specifically because of the accidentals in certain harmonies. I might refer to some of the sequences later, so here they are: a 2-up-3-down sequence closes the first half of the piece; a descending-fifths sequence “masked” with a smooth descending bass line in the latter half; and also, I seem to have played cascading romanescas (falling bass variants) in the latter half.

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image from Wherever the Wind Takes Me - Album Release!

Wherever the Wind Takes Me - Album Release!

Figure 1: A. J. Greengrove Profile Picture

Figure 1: A. J. Greengrove Profile Picture

Figure 2: Wherever the Wind Takes Me - album cover by Konsta Airisto

Figure 2: Wherever the Wind Takes Me - album cover by Konsta Airisto

Wherever the Wind Takes Me - album released! I’ll start with sharing links today.

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A Test Post. - For Blog Functionalities

This is the content of the test post. That’s how it originally read. However, I later thought, it is better suited to demonstrate some functionalities and technical aspects of the site. Here I rendered a lilypond code block (emacs babel) into musical notation:

\version "2.24.4"
\language "english"
\pointAndClickOff
\header {
  piece = "Some notes"
  tagline = ""
}
\new Staff \with {
  instrumentName = "Some instr."
} \relative c' {
  c8 d e f g a b c
  c,8 d e f g a b c
  c,8 d e f g a b c
  \break
  c,8 d e f g a b c
  c,8 d e f g a b c
  c,8 d e f g a b c
  \break
  c,8 d e f g a b c
  c,8 d e f g a b c
  c,8 d e f g a b c
}
#(set-default-paper-size '(cons (* 200 mm) (* 60 mm)))
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