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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1600 on: October 17, 2017, 09:43:10 AM »
'll try again today. It may well have been just me  :-[
You should click either its "MIDI (Duration)" time or "MP3 (Size)" Mb to play the medley - or any other tune on that page ;).
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1601 on: October 17, 2017, 11:39:47 AM »
Very nice work, Sandro!!  :D  Bravo! I have a crummy audio in my office, but still was able to flow with the melody. Two tough transitions (first & fourth), but love the ending of ABBA's tune. A very nice piece of work.

Is it organ or synthesizer? I'm having a hard time picking that out now. I have never heard both ragtime's pieces but Charles Johnson's track reminds me of a more popular, recent piano music that were made for a movie with either Paul Newman or Robert Redford. I can't place it right now.

Speaking of synthesizer, I think the first time it was used to mimic the sounds of a string orchestra was a track on Stevie Wonder's album 'Songs in the Key of Life', titled Pasttime Paradise'. Wonderful sound. Too bad that song was blasphemed by Coolio into sampling it to 'rap' his racially-based hit. Titled 'Gangsta Paradise'  :rolleyes:

Anyway...congrats! Wonderful piece!
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1602 on: October 17, 2017, 04:38:21 PM »
...I have never heard both ragtime's pieces but Charles Johnson's track reminds me of a more popular, recent piano music that were made for a movie with either Paul Newman or Robert Redford. I can't place it right now.

Are you thinking of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" from "The Sting?"




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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1603 on: October 17, 2017, 05:17:24 PM »
That's it, man!  :)

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1604 on: October 17, 2017, 06:00:31 PM »
Is it organ or synthesizer? I'm having a hard time picking that out now...Speaking of synthesizer, I think the first time it was used to mimic the sounds of a string orchestra
What, the whole medley sound?

I don't know if you are familiar with MIDI as opposed to MP3. Making an analogy with PC screen management, the latter is like a raster bitmap - a recording - while the first is like CAD vector imaging.

MIDI is a series of instructions to the PC sound card/circuit, e.g.: play an A4 with a duration of a quaver on channel 1, which for instance I may have assigned to the instrument "oboe". It emulates real instrumental sounds. I try to explain the process on http://www.floriani.it/MIDI-eng.htm.

In my medley, I used 9 channels, set to:

1. Oboe
2. Flute
3. French horn
4. Strings
5. Bassoon
6. Piano
7. Vibraphone
8. Harp
9. Percussions

Thus, no synthetiser but approaching a whole orchestra - hopefully :D.

Once I finish pottering with a MIDI piece, I run it through a converter to obtain its MP3 version - not much different except for a far larger file size, in the hope that it might play better than MIDI on someone else's PC.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1605 on: October 17, 2017, 06:17:35 PM »
What, the whole medley sound?

I don't know if you are familiar with MIDI as opposed to MP3. Making an analogy with PC screen management, the latter is like a raster bitmap - a recording - while the first is like CAD vector imaging.

MIDI is a series of instructions to the PC sound card/circuit, e.g.: play an A4 with a duration of a quaver on channel 1, which for instance I may have assigned to the instrument "oboe". It emulates real instrumental sounds. I try to explain the process on http://www.floriani.it/MIDI-eng.htm.

In my medley, I used 9 channels, set to:

1. Oboe
2. Flute
3. French horn
4. Strings
5. Bassoon
6. Piano
7. Vibraphone
8. Harp
9. Percussions

Thus, no synthetiser but approaching a whole orchestra - hopefully :D.

Once I finish pottering with a MIDI piece, I run it through a converter to obtain its MP3 version - not much different except for a far larger file size, in the hope that it might play better than MIDI on someone else's PC.

 :o

Akin to foreign language to me, lol. I know I specifically instructed degraded sound cards in our offices so I attributed it to my PC. It came out like synthesized sound.

Way beyond my scope of technological wizardry! Which I'm sorely lacking. Still sounded great though despite likely lacking that instrumental distinction from my speakers.

 :(
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Re: Money Music!
« Reply #1606 on: October 17, 2017, 07:17:01 PM »
I just finished orchestrating and uploaded a medley of 6 tunes with "Money" in their titles:
- We're in the Money (from the musical Gold Diggers of 1933)
Don't be shaking in your boots when that RM comes chasing after your gold,
because....Scared Money Never Wins

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1607 on: October 25, 2017, 02:48:07 PM »
Normally I dislike cover versions

Don Henley's Boys of Summer has wonderful memories for me - driving up the west coast from TJ in Mexico to the Canadian Border in open-topped cars - a MX-5 ( Miata in US? ) and a LeBaron - it was 1990..



Hue and Cry are two Scots brothers who were mildly famous in the late eighties in Britain - I quite like their homage to the original

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1608 on: November 06, 2017, 01:13:21 PM »
Be as You are).

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1609 on: November 06, 2017, 01:17:53 PM »
Be as You are).

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1610 on: November 06, 2017, 01:22:29 PM »
Be as You are).

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1611 on: December 11, 2017, 06:26:10 PM »
PAOLO CONTE
(January 6, 1937)

Shortly celebrating his 81 years, he graduated at Law School and started working in his father's law offices in Asti - a small provincial town in Piedmont better known as an important wine-producing area - deciding simultaneously to extend to a semi-professional level his musical studies.

He started writing songs, both music and lyrics, and he made an involuntary bang in our musical scene when a producer sent a cassette of one song to Adriano Celentano, who liked it and decided to record it, an instant top hit:


He kept writing songs for many other singers, until he was finally convinced in 1974 to form a band and sing them himself in various languages and mixes thereof:


He has toured several European countries for concerts to always packed audiences:



Last May he was awarded by the French Minister of Culture the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1612 on: January 11, 2018, 11:40:06 AM »
I used 3 of my orchestrations (Carioca, La Mer, Siboney) to create slideshows with personal photos that have some thematic relevance to those songs:

http://www.floriani.it/ballroom.htm?English#NEW.
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1613 on: January 11, 2018, 03:08:34 PM »
This an old song, but any time I hear it no matter what I'm doing, I find myself pausing what I'm doing and begin tapping along with the beat...


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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1614 on: January 13, 2018, 05:46:24 PM »
A further slideshow with my own photos:


A Corrida in Madrid's Plaza de toros where I took some photos back in 1972, and explanations in Italian about its rituals. Not exemplary since the matador did not manage to kill the bull cleanly with his estocada ::).

A typo in its title (Madridkd :() that I'll correct eventually.
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Re: Music I (sort of, like) and many FSU W Love
« Reply #1615 on: January 14, 2018, 03:50:12 AM »


He is no longer with us - he was already having treatment for a brain tumour - when this video was made...

One of Krasnoyarsk's ( Siberia: pop 1 million) most famous exports

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1616 on: January 14, 2018, 05:39:21 PM »
I grouped all my previous slideshows - and some new ones - on a different page:
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1617 on: January 15, 2018, 05:49:08 PM »
Bluegrass...#1 in 1957...I heard the bluebirds sing.



The Last Dance
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EARLY GENIUSES
« Reply #1618 on: February 22, 2018, 10:22:18 PM »
EARLY GENIUSES
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)


In 1821, at 12

Slightly later at 13, he composed his 1st Piano Concerto in A minor, opus no. 0 because it was not published later :o.


Above his original MS, with a few corrections. The opening Allegro movement shows, particularly in the piano part, a decided influence by W.A. Mozart, another "early genius".
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1619 on: February 22, 2018, 10:52:50 PM »
EARLY GENIUSES
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Symphony No. 1 in E flat (K. 16), his 1st major orchestral work, composed in 1764 when he was 8 y.o.:

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1620 on: March 22, 2018, 05:27:20 PM »
EASTER MUSIC

Easter is fast approaching, and churches in Milan and other cities offer free concerts where one can discover hitherto unknown composers of fine choral music.

Felice Anerio (1560-1614)

Michael Haydn (1737-1806) (Younger brother of Franz Joseph)
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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1621 on: March 24, 2018, 09:02:06 PM »
...and say "Can't we be friends"

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1622 on: June 07, 2018, 04:32:51 AM »
I love this type of music...

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1623 on: June 21, 2018, 05:43:48 PM »
Anton Bruckner
(1824 – 1896)
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Austrian composer and organist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length.

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Re: Music I love
« Reply #1624 on: June 30, 2018, 07:27:23 AM »
Fos some reason this music of the Englishman is popular in Russia and Ukraine. I think the Bernstein rendering is more forceful but this from Piter by Temirkanov is great.

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