Recordings of a
few of our songs from the joint rehearsal April 28th with Newcombe
Singers are below.
The intention of recording these was to determine the correct
recording level for recording the concert. Unfortunately On the Alm and
The Marksmen were recorded at too high a level resulting in some
clipping during the loud passages which you will hear as a sound
similar to a slamming door. I made no real attempt to remove them or do
anything except very basic processing of the music. So listen to them
not for the great quality of the
recording but to get a sense of what we sound like all together.
Left click to listen to them or right click to download them to your
computer.
This rehearsal music section is a work in progress. If you find other
interesting links on YouTube let me know and I will add them.
Noteworthy Composer and MIDI selections I can find on the Internet will
appear first. The rest will appear after I or someone else enters them
into Noteworthy Composer. Some may never appear at all. I will let you
know during rehearsal or via email of major changes.
Rehearsal
Music
for
Noteworthy
Composer (.nwc suffix) and midi
players (.mid suffix)
I deleted the staffs for Tenor 2 and Bass 2, where applicable, as Coro
Galiano will not be doing them. Some of the pieces include
dynamics and
some don't.
(NOTE - Sept 30/2011: I have
found out that the evaluation version of Noteworthy Composer will no
longer load music created by a licensed version of Noteworthy Composer.
- contact me (John) if you want
to try the
evaluation copy of Noteworthy Composer - I can email you files in what
is called the "Noteworthy Text" format which will work with it).
The free player/viewer allows you to listen and watch the score and
lyrics as it plays but you cannot control the volume of the individual
voices, slow the music down or anything like that - it is strictly a
"player").
MIDI
is
an
industry
standard
music
format.
Although
MIDI
files
can
be
played
with
the
Windows
Media
Player
or
similar
programs
I
recommend
one
of
the
following
as
they
allow
you
to
reduce
the
volume
or
mute
staffs
that
you
are
not
interested
in
listening
to.
The first time you run Midiplay it may complain that there will be no
sound. What you should do to get it working is select
"Microsoft MIDI Mapper" as the output device. Midiplay was quite easy
to use after that - showing you the music staff as it is
played (Select "MIDI ... Full score, all tracks"), but unfortunately
not the lyrics.
Midiplay may complain about errors in the MIDI files
- it is safe to ignore the errors and continue.
Both of these programs show the notes and the lyrics. Of the two I
found Melody Player to be much easier to understand and use. You can
mute or change the volume for individual voices and play the music from
any point in the score. Melody Assistant also allows you to edit the
music but at the cost of a much more complicated user interface and
steeper learning curve. The advantage is that you can set up the volume
of the different staffs to your personal taste and save the changes.
You can
use Melody Assistant for free indefinitely as long as you are
willing to put up with a "nag" at the beginning.