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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT: Gloria Patri

From: lsf5275@aol.com
Date: 2011-01-10

Mike, as you know, I, like so many, am a huge fan of your work. Accessing it through you tube is just great. I am very much looking forward to Basilica. Great stuff!
 
Frank
 
In a message dated 1/10/2011 3:28:45 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6MdBEMdVg

From the album 'Basilica' - www.mikedickson.org.uk/basilica

I suppose this is how Thomas Tallis might have sounded if he had access to an Eminent, and Elka Rhapsody, a Korg PE2000 and a Freeman String Symphonizer. 

I really love this piece - it has a really out-of-sorts harmony near the beginning and never lets up from that angular beginning. The bass works as a counterpoint to the main melody (as opposed to just being an accompaniment) and the tenor and alto lines act almost like a call-and-response. 

He got a lot of mileage out of four voices, our Tommy did.

-- Mike Dickson, EdinburghFree Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedicksonOr http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson Or http://www.myspace.com/mellotronworks