For those who are interested, I've sequenced the two Deep River versions that I found through the Library of Congress site:
Burleigh arrangement http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/n/n06/n0694/ http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/Midi/DeepRiver/DeepRiverBurleigh.MID Fisher arrangement (yes, that's all part of the URL!) http://memory.loc.gov/cgi- bin/query/I?aasm:12:./temp/~ammem_EdEy::displayType=2:m856sd=rpbaasm:m 856sf=1210:@@@mdb=manz,eaa,aap,aaeo,rbaapcbib,aasm,ftvbib,aaodyssey,hh ,gottscho,mharendt,bbpix,bbcards,magbell,berl,lbcoll,rbpebib,calbkbib, tccc,lhbcbbib,cdn,cic,cwband,cwnyhs,gmd,mtaft,cwar,cola,consrvbib,bdsb ib,coolbib,coplandbib,curt,dag,musdibib,fsaall,mfd,papr,aep,fine,fmuev er,dcm,cmns,flwpabib,afcreed,cowellbib,toddbib,lomaxbib,ngp,afcwwgbib, haybib,raelbib,gottlieb,mtj,alad,wpa,mal,scsm,mcc,mymhiwebib,mmorse,ai pn,ncpm,ncpsbib,afcwip,fawbib,omhbib,pan,afcpearl,vv,wpapos,psbib,pin, presp,lhbprbib,qlt,ncr,relpet,mussm,dukesm,mesnbib,llstbib,denn,amss,u ncall,fpnas,svybib,runyon,wtc,detr,hlaw,lhbumbib,upboverbib,varstg,hor yd,mgw,hawp,nawbib,suffrg,awh,nfor http://www.bway.net/~dfenton/Midi/DeepRiver/DeepRiverFisher.MID Both of these arrangements are vastly superior to anything that I was able to find on the web, except for a couple of the MP3s of professonal choirs doing good arrangements. My Friday evening fun is to take the Burleigh solo voice arrangement and use it as the basis for inputting the arrangement for 4-part men's chorus. The piano part is largely the same (if not exactly the same), so I'll just transpose it and put in the voice parts. I'll let everyone know when I have that up. BTW, I did these two sequences almost entirely in Finale. For the Fisher one, I used a sequencer only to tweak a couple of note velocities at the beginning that Finale was not setting appropriately. For the Burleigh, though, which has lots of rolled chords and complex pedalling, I basically had to complete redo all the pedalling in my sequencer as Finale can't really do things that precisely when you've got rolled chords (using the default rolled chord articulation). The problem was that I couldn't get the pedal marks to apply to the before-the-beat rolled notes and I couldn't get the pedal-up marks placed precisely enough. The result was that when I moved the pedal down to pick up the beginnings of the rolled chords I was getting the tail end of the full note values of the previous measure, so I had to manually go through and edit all those note values to shorten them. If I had a better sequencer this kind of thing would be easier, but I sorely wish Finale had better tools for doing this other than the way measure expressions work now. But all the dynamics and tempos are done in Finale, using the native Finale tools. I've learned that adjusting tempo is not nearly as mysterious as it used to seem -- ritards don't actually happen the way we think of them, as gradual slowing down. You can basically get by with maybe three tempo changes in a long ritard, and one or two in shorter ones. I just use non-printing note or measure expressions for that purpose, and it works pretty well, and I think sounds fairly natural. Anyway, I hope somebody enjoys them. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
