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Remember how I said I was going to sleep "for an hour" in my earlier entry? Apparently, my "hour" was four hours long. Now I'm awake again. Drat.

I pulled out a fairly old piece today (piano version written back on 5/23/2007) that I've always wanted to rescore for full instrumentation on Sibelius. (I'm thinking piano, cello, flute, and drums.) I've had it stuck in my head on and off for a month or so, and now seemed like a good time to start working on it.

I started with the percussion line and promptly made two interesting discoveries.

Discovery #1: I'm significantly better at writing percussion parts than I used to be. (When I started out, my approach to percussion was to flail randomly at the page with eighth notes, listen to it, and refine from there. It really shows in some pieces.)

Discovery #2: I'm incapable of writing this percussion part without picturing it as a Rock Band score.

Initially, I had this great idea about measuring my updates so that each one included a single screenshot from my store. However, I forgot to update for over a week - and I'm not sure it's all that logical a setup, anyway. Consequently, here's a giant update. Whee!

( DUNGEON LEVEL 7 - SOKOBAN 2 )

For your entertainment and mine, I present the first lines of 44 Beatles songs as rendered with Translation Party. (http://www.translationparty.com/) Translation Party is a website that translates lines from English into Japanese and back out repeatedly until the line no longer changes in translation. The results are as comical as you would expect from any automated translation software.

For further entertainment value, these songs are presented only by number. The answers are in the comments now. Feel free to guess!

Hint: you don't have to search the entire Beatles catalogue. These 44 songs come from a fairly obvious source.

( 1. Well, her 17-year-old, I knew her to compare the old.... )