The Blog I Do Not Write

I have no shortage of ideas for The Blog I Do Not Write, and a few drafts.

I’m currently not writing about the Granny Archive: my grandmother’s huge collection of sheet music that she bound and catalogued over the course of half a century, starting with her first wedding anniversary present in 1926 (Volume 1 of 3 of the Beethoven sonatas). I’m not writing about the personal significance of the key of B-flat major, or about my discovery of a hidden story of the Durham miners’ strike of the 1890s embedded in a piece in a piece of music written the 1980s. Nor am I writing about the use of the ‘pivot’ when changing key in music and its equivalent in children’s literature (and in database programming); about Schumann and Adele (there is a connection!); or about concert manners, the gift that (Uncle) Tommy Fielden gave my grandparents, RSI and the brutality of perfection, how I teach the Circle of Fifths to very young children – “Dad, come and see! It’s like a giant mirror reflecting back on itself!” – and more. But I hope to do so.