Engraved score showing a post-tonally-inflected blues intro with the title “Blues for Frank” above.

Today’s #proofofbeinghuman: engraved the intro to #bluesforfrank, the last movement of #tombeau. After a few adjustments thanks to @megan-hill.bsky.social, it’s humming!

Physical score showing three attempts to begin the final movement of Tombeau: Blues for Frank

Tonight’s #proofofbeinghuman:

Third time’s the charm 🤷‍♂️
#tombeau #bluesforfrank

Musical score depicting the minor, relative, major, and parallel, major blue scales, as realized on tonic, subdominant, and dominant tonal areas. The whole thing is in the shape of a pyramid. Below, it are smaller reproductions of that pyramid showing the subsets of the blue scale in each major section of this movement.

Today’s #proofofbeinghuman: a “blues pyramid” and the subsets that will form each section of #tombeau’s last movement, #bluesforfrank.

A handwritten musical sketch entitled “Blues for Frank“ several versions of the blue scale written out

Today, I began the last movement of #tombeau, entitled #bluesforfrank. I began writing this suite in after my uncle’s sudden death last year. He was an amateur blues musician, and so I felt it was fitting to end this work—a deep dive into composing with hexachords—by using the blues scale.