Well, I've finished with both proofs -- Kum Ba Yah and O Come All Ye Faithful -- and have them sent back off to the respective publishers. Even though it's exciting, what with this being the penultimate step in the publishing process and all, it's still a tedious, oftentimes mind-numbing activity, going through note by note, articulation by articulation, measure after measure, page after page. It's made worse by the knowledge that if I should miss something in the step of the process, it's all on me, and will go out in the world as one of those things we musicians look at and thing, "Good merciful heavens, how can they not get this right?" (If you've ever played in a musical theatre production, you know exactly what I mean -- the number of musicals I've played in where all the instrumental parts have been totally correct could still be counted on my fingers and toes if I had them all amputated after a bout of frostbite.) I've already had one of those experiences -- the tempo on We Three Kings -- and it was enough to teach me my lesson.
What with our Spring Break ending tomorrow and it being Palm Sunday, I think I'm on a brief hiatus from handbell composing for a few days, but rest assured, I'll be back at it before long. Until then, have a blessed Holy Week and, should I not write until then, a Happy Easter.
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