This is where Bob Bethune likes to put up various odds and ends from time to time. If there's something useful here, enjoy!

Questions about music notation:

Here's the image of the harmony in La Pantomime that I'm having trouble with. Why are the base notes that I have circled G's instead of F's? They seem to me to be really ugly & dissonant.

Here's another image from this score that I have questions about. In this case, the question is, why don't the 1/16th and 1/8th note runs add up to enough time?

And last but not least, here's a third image of stuff I don't understand. What's the doubled x on some of these notes mean?

Other stuff:

Fox double gun patterns

Pictures of Birds, Illinois, where my mother grew up. This farmhouse is renovated, but it is the same structure as the house she grew up in.

My review of the Theatre du Soleil production of Les Atrides in 1992 is here.

The pictures I use for eBay auctions are here.