Thimblefuls of Beer Arrangements by Paula Goodwin
Shaenon: Remember Daphne Arthur’s Thimblefuls of Beer composition? I hope so, because Paula Goodwin has written arrangements for string quartet and for three clarinets. (Click for MP3 recordings.) Thank you so much! I will never get over receiving music.
Channing: This is beautiful, Daphne. I never expected something like this! Thank you!
I should have said this the first time but I’m so glad that my comment made a small movement like this, of course they probably didn’t need me to make that comment I mean it was an obvious idea.
Your comment definitely helped nudge me to actually write the melody.
That was a very pretty start to the day. I tried to let my best cat listen on the new head phones but he just bit the wires.
I really like the 3 Clarinets arrangement.
#blink# Wow. Some goosebumps moments there. I feel pretty good about my ability to create a melody, but I know I’m not half the arranger some folks are — including Paula Goodwin. I’d like to see the rest of the notation, and I think I need to get a clarinet.
It’s fascinating when somebody takes one of your works and improves it in a direction you hadn’t envisioned. Conceiving this as a lively reel, it would not occur to me to slow it down like this, but doing so makes room for those viola & cello runs … and the moment where the cello grabs the melody for four measures is So Cool! And the reed version makes me think of Aaron Copland.
I am a jumble of feels!
I am late to this, having gotten to this via a small-world connection via a friend who’s a regular Skin Horse Reader…but thanks to both of you, Daphne and Paula!
Thank you all! I’m looking forward to the day when we are actually allowed to play live music to live audiences.
thimblesful
/pedant
I was actually going to call it that when I started writing it, but then I realized people hearing the title aloud, or misremembering it, would eventually turn it into “Thimbles Full of Beer” instead of “Thimblesful of Beer”, and decided the less elegant “Thimblefuls of Beer” was a safer, more linguistically stable title. But yes, “thimblesful” is more euphonious of the two valid plurals there. (Wiktionary gives both.)
Let’s see if this reply threads where it’s supposed to, under Bathymetheus’ comment …
There’s an SMBC for people like you…
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/plural