This is not entirely Odd but I thought I would share it with my Urbana friends. <br>Having worked out the technique I want to do this for more music - perhaps yours!<br>
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This is an animated score video of Charles Griffes' impressionistic
piano piece "Vale of Dreams". Technically, Sonar X1, Pianoteq, Sony
Vegas. <br>
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Watch on Youtube <a href="http://youtu.be/qK1rxIP8pkE">http://youtu.be/qK1rxIP8pkE</a><br>
<br>A picture of the composer <a href="http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/pictures/5518.jpg">http://www.basicfamouspeople.com/pictures/5518.jpg</a><br><br>
The full quality video is available here: <br>
<a href="http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/classical-music/Griffes_Vale_of_Dreams.wmv">http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/classical-music/Griffes_Vale_of_Dreams.wmv</a><br>
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Just the music <a href="http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/classical-music/Griffes_Vale_of_Dreams_piano_only.mp3">http://clones.soonlabel.com/public/classical-music/Griffes_Vale_of_Dreams_piano_only.mp3</a><br>
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I've had this midi file on my hard drive for quite sometime (several
hard drives actually since I acquired this in 1996!!) before I played
and liked it. It does sound a lot like Debussy - for me that is not a
bad thing.<br>
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>From wikipedia:<br>
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After early studies on piano and organ in his home town, he went to
Berlin for four years to study composition with Engelbert Humperdinck
and piano with Ernst Jedliczka at the Stern conservatory. On returning
to the U.S. in 1907 he began teaching at the Hackley School for boys in
Tarrytown, New York, a post which he held until his early death 13 years
later.<br>
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Griffes is the most famous American representative of musical
Impressionism. He was fascinated by the exotic, mysterious sound of the
French Impressionists, and was compositionally much influenced by them
while he was in Europe. He also studied the work of contemporary Russian
composers (for example Scriabin), whose influence is also apparent in
his work, for example in his use of synthetic scales.<br>
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His most famous works are the White Peacock, for piano (1915,
orchestrated in 1919); his Piano Sonata (1917--18, revised 1919); a tone
poem, The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, after the fragment by Coleridge
(1912, revised in 1916), and Poem for Flute and Orchestra (1918). He
also wrote numerous programmatic pieces for piano, chamber ensembles,
and for voice. The amount and quality of his music is impressive
considering his short life and his full-time teaching job, and much of
his music is still performed. His unpublished Sho-jo (1917), a one-act
pantomimic drama based on Japanese themes, is one of the earliest works
by an American composer to show direct inspiration from the music of
Japan