I do so agree. The midi version does, however, have the benefit that it can
be slowed down for those of us with not-so-agile-anymore digits :-)
It also has the benefit of being able to be turned into the dots on freeware
programs.
Personally, I'd like both - a nice mp3 of "how it should sound in real life"
and the ability to make the dots to take it slow and easy to learn.
Midi will never sound as it should - we can't transfer "feeling" to digital
(thank goodness) although they had a good try with the piano many years ago
(punched roll that actually varied the pressure etc on the keys - it's in
the Paul Corin museum in Cornwall which I visited many times - and the
difference between that and a general pianola is remarkable.
I think of midi as the blank canvas on which to paint the music.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Robb" <[email protected]>
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <[email protected]>; "Colin"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:19 AM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Where hast thou been all the night?
Hello Colin
It's not just the nasty tonal quality it is the lifeless,
mechanical emptiness of the noise which rankles. This music gets its
life and very existence from the human touch of individual phrasing and
decoration. It is this more than anything which we need to appreciate
the beauty behind the dots. We now have the technology to send this
vital spark of the music around the globe. Wouldn't it be a great
idea for musicians to use it?
As aye
Anthony
--- On Fri, 5/11/10, Colin <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Colin <[email protected]>
Subject: [NSP] Re: Where hast thou been all the night?
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, 5 November, 2010, 23:44
Sound isn't a problem for me as (somehow) I have ABCNavigator set to
play
using something like a reedy violin ( I think it's set for harmonica)
but
I'm a little stuck on the tempo for this one (not that good reading the
dots) and, when played, it raced away at a speed which I had no hope of
matching on anything! Certainly not on the pipes or gurdy without
losing a
finger or two.
I'm possibly used to seeing a Q value (?) in the header of abc to set
the
tempo.
It opened at 100 but, at 30, it sounds a rather nice tune.
Any suggestions as to the tempo (another well known tune that's at the
same
tempo would do as I really don't know that much about abc either) :-)
Thanks,
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Robb" <[1][email protected]>
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <[2][email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 7:07 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Where hast thou been all the night?
>
>
> To John Julia & Matt and all
> This has been a wonderful interchange and highly enjoyable save in
one
> respect. The horrible midi noise made as my computer plays the
> examples. I can't be the only one who would love to hear the points
> made on the instrument(s) the tune(s) was/were developed for.
> A recording via an inexpensive mic directly into the computer would
be
> a vast improvement on the tinny piano I've been listening to. Could
> there be a vault where examples are stored not just for people on
this
> list but other pipers too?
> I realise some immediacy would be lost but it would be a wonderful
> resource once the discussion was over.
> Cheers
> Anthony
> --- On Fri, 5/11/10, Julia Say <[3][email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Julia Say <[4][email protected]>
> Subject: [NSP] Re: Where hast thou been all the night?
> To: "NSP group" <[5][email protected]>, "Gibbons, John"
> <[6][email protected]>
> Date: Friday, 5 November, 2010, 16:01
>
> On 5 Nov 2010, Gibbons, John wrote:
> >Crawhall's tags... are harmonically as well as melodically
> > different from Reavely,
> Exactly - which is why I think there's two possible sets there.
> > the illegibilities in Crawhall seem
> > to be mostly his fault...
> Was he noting this down in haste, I wonder? There are similarities
in
> parts of the
> Clough MSS, where the writing is obviously that of Tom (3), but not
the
> considered
> and legible stuff of the "best" collection...
> > I will happily contribute to the medal fund for a sight of
Reavely!
> Copy, I think, is what we need (OK, so it's a wish list). It's easy
to
> look at an
> MS and make an index, but with an anxious owner hovering one cannot
> spend enough
> time to even abc much.
> > Matt's strains ... definitely don't require an open-ended
chanter.
> OK, thanks for that. Thanks to a damaged right elbow, I'm not very
> fluent on
> anything at present.
> > some work before I get home....
> Working out how to rake in all those tuition fees?? <grin>
> Julia
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