{"id":1744,"date":"2013-02-07T23:31:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2013-02-07T23:36:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:36:31","slug":"counting-lengths-by-compositions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2013\/02\/07\/counting-lengths-by-compositions\/","title":{"rendered":"counting lengths by compositions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I go swimming most weeks at a local pool, doing 20 laps up and down in my lunch break. Sometimes I get so relaxed doing this that I lose count of how many laps I&#8217;ve done.  Recently it occurred to me that I could keep track by associating each lap with a musical composition.<\/p>\n<p>I started thinking of works with numbers in their titles. I mean cardinal rather than ordinal numbers.  Individual songs or arias don&#8217;t count. So I allow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Four Last Songs<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Six Orchestral Pieces<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>The Twelve<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Music for 18 Musicians<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>but don&#8217;t allow:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>Ninth Symphony<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>Octet<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The low numbers are easy &#8211; being into Second Viennese School helps quite a lot here &#8211; but I&#8217;m missing the following: 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19, 20.  So any suggestions of works which feel these gaps would be gratefully received.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I go swimming most weeks at a local pool, doing 20 laps up and down in my lunch break. Sometimes I get so relaxed doing this that I lose count of how many laps I&#8217;ve done. Recently it occurred to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2013\/02\/07\/counting-lengths-by-compositions\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}