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The Beethoven Transcriptions

by julian Broadhurst MSEP

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DCM 016 - The Beethoven Transcriptions - Music for strings Electronics and Percussion. MSEP 1 - my 16th album. Compositional and studio exercises after Beethoven. - the first of three volumes of MSEP studio studies.

One dose Not improve on Beethoven, Nor should one try, nor did I try. So what are these then ? Well, exercises, pure and simply, to learn about the studio - the Drum Studio, as was. In those heady early days, - everything was up in the air and nothing had really fallen back to earth yet. I had effectively locked myself in a studio to just record, record, record, using everything I had to hand and everything the studio could give me A few weeks into my intense study I had had Identified 4 genres of research interest - 'Drum music, Dm' - 'Metal Percussion music', MPm . - 'Electronic music, Em' and 'Phase music Phm'. ,Not yet in their familiar order, but that is whole another story. However something was still to come, something was in the air .I was searching for sounds that excited my imagination. My old friend and Great Hero somehow got drafted in to a whirlwind of experimentation that was never really intended to see the light of day.

Analysing what I had done to the great man was very revealing, and a passage in it would lead to 'Antis - Rh 133'. This was a new kind of music, an electro Acoustic music, a notional Classical music - or sketches toward that, which I called - Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, MSEP [as a broad notion]. Music as a summation of my work so far.

The Transcriptions were just a moment - just a passing point - but they were a first step in the MSEP process and take their place - here, prior to the album that really founded its Genre - MSEP 2 - Countout. This would really hit the ground running - featuring in a PhD study of my music by musicologist Tom Hewitt.


An early reorganization of my music research interest defined my music into dedicated sets of Albums. This way things of a kin got heard together - as one type of album or another - by Genre - or Tranche as I styled them. In this Case Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion, or MSEP - best described simply as 'Electro Acoustic music with orchestral instruments,' – by convention MSEP.

Albums 16 - 18, are the first three MSEP albums, placed in a block, one of 5 blocks, placed like books on a shelf. in an in an overarching 'Group' of my first 27albums. Five Blocks for the Five Tranches - as they were founded (more of less) - five sets of studies and pieces, as my Foundational Group 'Blue Cherry' [after a friend]. The foundation stone the rest of my music is built on - in four further Groups.

The three MSEP albums in the Blue Cherry Group are three Volumes of quite advanced studies – MSEP 1 The Beethoven Transcriptions; MSEP 2 Countout – a set of pieces for Cello and Electronics which features in Tom Hewitt’s PhD study of my work; and MSEP 3 Termanstrung [time and strings] for Cello and Elecronics – also with twork for he Cello as a percussion instrument, percussing with fingers on its body.

Beginning as a percussionist my first 7 albums are for Drums of various kinds, Drum music or Dm, my first area of research interest or Tranche. I soon realised there was a second area of percussion, as a generality over a specialism - percussion on anything other than Drums, MPm. The third of of five was the Phase music, realised by tape looping and timing, Phm. The fourth, a genre of Electro Acoustic composition, Music for Strings, Electronics and Percussion - by Convention MSEP.

The album numbers are volumes in a [for the most part] chronological edition.- The DCM Broadhurst Edition - Prepared for the British Library in 2019. The Volumes or Albums themselves were actually released as and when it was possible. The Edition though, was planed to stand on the 'foundation Stone' of the Blue Cherry group.

The Rh catalogue, numbers my works in order of Completion.

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released July 27, 2014

Tireless hours in my original Drum Studio MSEP.

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