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CLASSICAL & ORCHESTRAL |
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| To The Queen of England (8K6), GM - Sept 4 |
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| The first Symphony is a statement on the Globalization movement, and the lost of old empires, and the creation of new ones, this is the third movement. Rather then the old classical tradition of fast/ slow/ fast /mixed/, I've set out in my first symphony to establish a sad or tragic /happy or loving /sad or tragic/ mixed /set of movements for sad Symphony's and happy or loving/sad of tragic/ happy or loving/mixed for happy Symphony's. Will I change the classical world? Probable not. The piece is in 6/8 time in A minor, Standard 8m sound font Creative 128 PCI card, Edited with Anvil Studio. | |
| Death at Genoa (13K), GM - Sept 4 |
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| Death at Genoa is the four movement of my first Symphony. Rather then the old classical tradition of fast/ slow/ fast /mixed I've set out in my first symphony to establish a sad or tragic /happy or loving /sad or tragic/ mixed /set of movements for sad Symphony's and happy or loving/sad of tragic/ happy or loving/mixed for happy Symphony's. Will I change the classical world? Probable not. Death at Genoa is how I felt about the death that occurrence there, and the events that have lead that death. It is tragic that people have to die just to be able to say what they think. The piece is in 6/4 time in B flat major, Standard 8m sound font Creative 128 PCI card, Edited with Anvil Studio. | |
| Suite #1 Dmaj (39K), GM - Sept 9 |
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was composed on a Packard-Bell computer using Noteworthy Composer
software. Its a suite for "pseudo-strings" in 4 movements. |
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| Doublin (83K7), GM - Sept 11 |
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| Doublin is scored for large orchestra and features solo by many of the insturments, including Flute, Horn, Tuba, and Timpani. The work is very Irish sounding, hence the title, and is oosely based upon a theme by Wagner. I have no experience with MIDI tools so this is simply the playback of what I notated in Finale. This is why there are no tempo changes or sharp dynamic contrasts." | |
| The Hubbard Saga (60K7), GM - Sept 12 |
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| The piece was commissioned for the Sale Festival 2001, where it was performed in June 2001. The second performance will take place at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester on 2nd October 2001. It is based on and follows the rhythm of the poem Old Mother Hubbard, by Sarah Catherine Martin, and the children's choir, split to go either side of the adult choir, sings the barking of the dog in stereo response style (a.k.a. antiphonal woofers!). At about 2 minutes 40 seconds in there is a section for individual children to speak and explain the story of the poem (the strings rest on various chords while the child speaks, followed by a comment from clarinet and flute in turn - the final explanation ends with the info that the original manuscript of the poem was sold for $5,000, to which the adult choir responds with a woof woof of admiration - it was difficult to choose the right patch for that, but I plumped for guitar fret noise!). At various points the flute and clarinet wander off in a jig like dance. The piece is full of music jokes, which will make more sense in the live performance, but I trust that this midi file gives a good idea of the piece as a whole and that you enjoy hearing it as much as I have enjoyed making it. | |
| Trio (2K3), GM - Sept 16 |
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| A really quick trio I did using my midi keyboard only. | |
| Adagio Interlude (5K5), GM - Sept 19 |
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| Incidental music notated and sequenced on Cakewalk Home Studio using Roland SoundCanvas fonts (previously submitted to a another midi contest, so some of you might have heard it already). This piece is for a chamber wind ensemble and string orchestra; characterized by pedal tones, mostly full chords, some dissonances, some intertwined melodies and some unconventional progressions. e n j o y. | |
| War March (146K5), GM - Sept 26 |
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| WarMarch is a story of troops going off to battle. It includes four distinct parts....marching to the battle, the fight, the aftermath, and on to the next battle. Hopefully the drum rolls and brass sections translate properly on your system. (I love tubas!!!!) I added a GM reset and spread out the controllers so Pawel would be happy!!! :-) Composed using Cakewalk 8.04 and an AWE-64 soundcard with an 8 meg GM soundfont. This tune is dedicated to all those brave souls who have fought for freedom around the world and will continue to do so in the future. | |
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Romantic Suite
3rd movement, Never Ending (172K), GM - Sept 28 |
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| This piece complements two other movements. If you listen carefully, you will hear some motives of my previous submissions appear. Strings are very difficult to reproduce decently with MIDI. But this piece is almost based exclusively of strings: the soft strings for the background accompaniment, and two solo violas for some melody fragments. I tried to balance the sound for the Emu 4MBGS soundfont, but the result is not exactly as I wanted... I hope you still find the music enjoyable on your sound hardware. | |
| Lost Memories, Merlin violin version, Standard voice version and Sibelius version (35K), GM - Sept 28 |
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| Composed using SBLive, Cakewalk and Sibelius. The better one is the violin version with the Merlin soundfonts. The Sibelius version is an experiment using some controls. The Standard version is for standard EMU soundfonts. | |
| Battle of Magic (12k), GM - Sept 30 |
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| I'd say this is Contemporary classical, this is pretty short march type of song, I think it goes well along the title Battle of magic, cuz I can imagine somekind of fight between good and evil when I listen to this, I used SB live with 4MB GMGSMT soundfonts and Evolution Midi. | |
| Haunted (19K), GM - Sept 30 |
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| This is Contemporary classical and is pretty fantasy like song. I like the feel on this one, I think it's very mysterious, I used SB live with 4MB GMGSMT soundfonts and Evolution Midi. | |
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CINEMATIC |
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| Journey in my Dreams (24K), GM - Sept 4 | |
| SB Live, 8MB GM E-mu soundfont optimal | |
| Twilight Journey (98K8), GM - Sept 11 | |
| Specs: Guitar Pro 2.2, SBLive, GM Comments: An ancient work of mine that I recently dug up, it is a wandering instrumental of nearly 8 minutes. | |
| What a Fool I Was (42K3), GM - Sept 15 |
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| Sblive card with cadenza soundfont bank . | |
| Ants and Fairys Dance (36K5), GM - Sept 16 |
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| No description. | |
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Willabum's Final Adventure
(89K), GM - Sept 22 |
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Mixed down from 32 channels to 16 channels. Sequenced with Cakewalk
Sonar and an SBLive. If you have an SBLive it is recommended that
you use the Concert Hall EAX setting for intended acoustics. Willabum is a heroic character even though in most instances his adventures are somewhat comical in nature. This however is his last adventure... so basically he dies... but he'll probably come back to life again evetually. I abridged this song a little to what I originally had in mind, but I think the music pretty much covers the main idea. Since this is all imaginatory, the song is open for interpretation and any feedback is encouraged and welcome. |
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| The Market (34K6), GM - Sept 24 |
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| This piece was written using Sibelius scorewriter, and is supposed to sound like an Arab marketplace. The slower middle section makes me think of a seer or something. Enjoy!" | |
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Midnight
(121K8), GM - Sept 26 |
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| The second part of the Fantasy suite. In the forest the child enters a fantasy world and explors the strange land. | |
| Emerald (50K8), GM - Sept 26 |
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| The first part of the Fantasy suite that comes from the background music in a dream I had. It follows the wanderings of a child through a small town and then out into the forest. | |
| Brave New World (49K4), GM - Sept 26 |
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| Gear: Cakewalk 6.0, Vibra 128 Card | |
| Duke Nuke Play (60K), GM - Sept 26 | |
| SBLive + 4M or 8M soundfont. It was composed thinking on the famous game for PC. | |
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POP - ROCK - RHYTHM |
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| Hypocrite (41K), GM - Sept 11 | |
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Guitar Pro 2.2, Sounblaster Live, GM Comments: A mellow, restrained guitar rocker with vocals. (Lyrics available by request after the contest.) The inspiration for the 'hyprocrite' in this song was 19th century America and its dealing with the Native Americans, but it can be applied to anyone. Soft tune with acoustic and electric guitar, it ends on a faded-out guitar solo. |
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| Turn Off That Awful Noize (83K3), GM - Sept 15 |
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| Sblive card with cadenza soundfont bank . | |
| Dreaming Away (18K1), GM - Sept 23 |
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| Slow, romantic pop music. The main piano part is originally played with Kurzweil Micropiano module. I hope it will also sound good on your MIDI equipment. MIDI Type 1. Sequenced with MicroLogic, Micropiano and SC-88VL. | |
| Let's Play (78K2), GM - Sept 26 |
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| It´s an experimental easy listening rock stile made with Sb Live! + Sonar 1.0. it sounds ok. I hope you enjoy! | |
| Blow by Blow (47K), GM - Sept 30 |
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| SB live, Cadenza SF | |
BLUES - SWING |
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COUNTRY AND WESTERN |
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| Pass the Jug, Jethro (67K), GM - Sept 15 |
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| A good ol' fashioned knee slappin, foot-tappin, moonshine-swillin', banjo-pluckin, fiddle-strokin', front-porch sittin', toothless grinnin', guitar pickin', washboard scrapin', jug-passin' country hoedown that passes a short ditty around to all the cousins until everyone jumps in.... even Granny can't resist, and sets the jug of shine down for a while to dance a jig. I wrote this one for another contest (midistudio.com)... one of the first songs I ever entered, when I first found out about MIDI contests online. Get outta yer chair and get to steppin' , and before ya do... would ya pass the jug, Jethro? Hoooo Doggie! | |
JAZZ |
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| Hobble Skirt 1914 (75K5), GM - Sept 30 |
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| A long skirt, popular between 1910 and 1914, that was so narrow below the knees that it restricted normal stride. This song is about a young lady in style going down the street inciting men to hong, whistle, jingling, etc. The weather is bright, birds are singing, the sun's shining. Then comes the tragic end: after some unsteadiness our beautiful young lady falls onto her elegant and nice bottom. In style, of course. Made with Orhestrator Pro and SB64AWEGold. | |
TECHNO - NEW AGE |
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AMBIENT |
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| River Harp in China (9K), GM - Sept 11 |
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| No description. | |
ABSTRACT - EXPERIMENTAL - FUSION |
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| Sunny Day (38K), GM - Sept 30 |
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| SB Audio PCI 64V, using Cakewalk | |
| Knight Time (48K), GM - Sept 30 |
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| SB Audio PCI 64V, using Cakewalk | |
OTHERS - UNKNWON |
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| Roving Song (27K), GM - Sept 4 |
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| SB Live, 8MB GM E-mu soundfont optimal. | |
| Frame Work (11K), GM - Sept 11 |
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| This is the second part of the piece I sent last month. See if you can guess which one. | |
| God Bless Manhattan (13K3), XG - Sept 23 |
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| Perhaps not my best, but I did want to say something. Title: God Bless Manhattan (and God Bless You) XG. | |
| Fantasy for Organ (19K6), GM - Sept 23 |
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| This is a kind of an experiment, where the sound of church organ is simulated by mixing of several instruments such as flute, recorder, whistle, pan flute and oboe. I have mixed 3 or 4 of these instruments for each part (swell organ,great organ and pedals) to receive the specific organ sound without the use of the church organ patch. On my equipment it sounds fairly natural. I hope it will sound OK on other sound cards. MIDI type 1. Sequenced with MicroLogic AV and Roland SC-88VL. | |
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