Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 1 —JOURNAL

Sharing my work as it happens for this composition.

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 2 —JOURNAL

I wrote some good harmonic lines! I started learning a new notation software program!

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 3 —JOURNAL

The first draft of the first section is complete!

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 4 (Part 1) —JOURNAL

I have a version of this piece I could publish! Now to get the rest of it done…

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 4 (Part 2) —JOURNAL

Reworking rhythms to make the next section of this piece connect more clearly to the first.

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 5 —JOURNAL

Fighting a horrible mood by making progress anyway. Not much. But enough.

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 6 —JOURNAL

A surprising amount of progress over the weekend—the muscles are coming back!

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 7 —JOURNAL

Memorial Day and Thursday night progress…

Composing a Fanfare for Crew Dragon: Day 8 —JOURNAL

SpaceX launched today, and I am launching the rough draft of “Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight” to honor it!

Presence—JOURNAL

A few notes on God-with-us in his Word and at his Table.

Trailer Music Jam↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

The fruit of riffing on an idea at a coffee shop all afternoon.

Miscellaneous Updates—JOURNAL

Or: it has been months since I wrote anything, so I’m scratching that itch.

Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

You can now search for my name in Spotify, Apple Music, etc., and you will find there: orchestra music!

StaffPad Versions—JOURNAL

Making it easy to keep track of your composing history in StaffPad.

StaffPad to Dorico via MusicXML? Alas, no. —JOURNAL

A tale of woe! …but with some tips for less woeful tales to sooth the bitter pill this is.

2021 End-of-Year Thoughts —JOURNAL

Another year behind, another reflection on what happened (and what didn’t!) in this latest circuit of the sun.

Eternals—JOURNAL

Not a good movie, exactly, but an interesting one.

Dorico Tip: Solo Parts in String Sections —JOURNAL

This was a bit subtle, so I'm writing it down for myself in the future (and maybe others, too!).

2022 in Review: The Rest of life —JOURNAL

Less than I wanted of music, running, etc.; but some good things on the financial and spiritual fronts.

An Orchestra in My Pocket—JOURNAL

Well, in my bag anyway. Close enough. And astonishing.

Fanfare for a New Era of American Spaceflight – Live Recording! ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Last summer, I hired the Budapest Scoring Orchestra and recorded my fanfare. And now: you can listen to the recording!

Versioning and Big Binary Blob Art Files—JOURNAL

Sharing my ad hoc version management for writing musical scores. (It works for Photoshop just as well!)

Typographical and Musical Scales—JOURNAL

Mildly contra Matthew Butterick on music, grids, and how to relate them to typography.

Difficult—JOURNAL

On works of art which challenge.

2023 in Review: The Rest of Life—JOURNAL

A Sanctus for Epiphany —JOURNAL

Music you can sing (any time, but especially in this liturgical season).

The Desert—ELSEWHERE

For solo piano. A Lenten musical meditation.

Pro Eclecticism: A Rant—JOURNAL

Contra John Ahern at Theopolis.

music.chriskrycho.com—ELSEWHERE

A new one-stop shop for all things musical from me.