The Haggard Herald

My "final" for music composition is to write a quartet for the following instruments: soprano sax, bass clarinet, viola, and vibraphone. That's a pretty diverse group of instruments. I'm not quite sure how I'm going to organize my piece. Do you have any ideas for me? Check out the following website to learn about the instruments. Thank you in advance for your input! "The Orchestra: A User's Manual"— http://www.mti.dmu.ac.uk/~ahugill/manual/intro.html Examples of what you could make suggestions about: who gets the melody, or the order of who plays melody at different times key signature? time signature? what kind of feeling or idea to try and create? slow or fast or a mix, what order to put it in? (e.g. slow first, gradually speed up, really fast and then go back to a slower steady pace) use one or more of the instruments in an unusual way (e.g. make it a percussion instrument, play only the mouth piece of the clarinet or sax, pluck the viola ...

In honor of her impending graduation and wedding, this post is dedicated to Jamie.   This was taken at her bridal shower a couple weeks ago up in Bountiful.   This is a common site in 213.  Jamie studying, eating carrots and peanut butter with her water bottle near by.  Here we on a Sunday evening a couple weeks ago.  We were matching: green shirts and white skirts.  Great minds think a like.  It surprises me how often people match.  Jamie and I match quite a bit and it seems like whenever I'm home I usually match Alicia or Kimmy, especially on Sundays.  I don't know why, but its fun.   I bought milk yesterday and the "best by" date is Jamie's wedding day.  I decorated the milk jug to attract attention to it.  She laughed at me when she saw it.  :)  This is our closet.  We have lots of shoes and very little space to put them.  We also have lots of scarves, mostly due to generous families we both have that gi...