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ThisName Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Mar. 22 2006, 17:54 Hi all, I hope to have my Ommadawn essay ready in the next 4 weeks and I would like to put it up on this site if it makes the grade! It is a 2500 word analysis project and I am looking at the first part. I have been listening to it a lot recently and words cannot express what I feel for the piece. I am amazed that a normal human being like you and I can create something that is so special and that has a real universal appeal as well as a lastability that will stretch hundreds of years. I am a composer myself and would have given my right arm to have written something as beautiful as that....Ok I'm rambling. Anyways, keep your eyes peeled for my essay! Cheers -------------- www.ryanyardmusic.com Back to top

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Mar. 22 2006, 18:44 If you need a previewer I'm used to reading stuff from musicians - I reviewed all my wifes essays for her music degree - with the OU.  I also really like Ommadawn.  But i'm pretty brutal with sentence formation and general flow of a document as I do alot of report revewing at work!!!!   2500 words - that sounds like about 10 pages? Ray   -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Mar. 22 2006, 19:08 As much as I adore Ommadawn I would struggle greatly to describe it in words, let alone 10 pages worth! Can't wait to read it. I write every day, on the net, and in my diary and letters. I write so much that I can't use conventional diaries, I have to buy hard cover ruled books and write the date in as I go along. I average about 3 pages a day, it only takes me 3 months to fill a 200 page book. But while I enjoy writing very much and have written 200 pages of my autobiography, my casual diary entries have made me a lazy writer who always wants to be witty and interesting but I don't put enough thought or effort into writing something that is intelligent and succinct. I would love to find the time to take on such a challenge and I am hoping I will get the inspiration after reading your project. Really looking forward to it. So is this essay a university project that will be marked? Good Luck! Tracy. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

ThisName Group: Members Posts: 307 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Mar. 23 2006, 08:08 Yes, this essay makes up a small module for my composition degree. It hasbeen soewhat controvesial because we usually analyse modern music such as Ligeti, Boulez etc but I wanted to take a different path and I feel that Ommadawn is a defining work not only in popular music but in contemporary music. My analysis will not be too complex i suspect, although I have worked out the groundplan and thematic references. I think my analysis will be less note for note and more aesthetic in its approach. I think it will be worth reading and I hope people enjoy what I have found in the piece. I intend to do this for other works of his but it does take a lot of time. Thanks for all the interest though! -------------- www.ryanyardmusic.com Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Mar. 23 2006, 11:01 Really nice idea I look forward to reading it I heard it in the car again yesterday, and it's amazing... especially those background voices that just go on and on!!! Hopefully it's in your essay how they did that, because I don't know   Good luck -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

maria Group: Members Posts: 928 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Mar. 23 2006, 19:43 i'm also very interested in reading your essay on ommadawn. i've written a lot listening to mike's music, especially ommadawn, crises, tsode or amarok, but whenever i feel the need to do that, it's mainly to try to describe the images i see in the music and the feelings they produce. u are brave to take a different path to what is stablished in the place where u are studying. good luck!! -------------- ...morning and evening i'm flying, i'm dreaming... Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1360 Joined: April 2001 Posted: April 12 2014, 05:35 Just read your essay Ryan, I just wanted to say what a great job you did, will you do the same thing for anymore of Mike's albums? Back to top

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