The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #65605   Message #1088251
Posted By: wysiwyg
07-Jan-04 - 05:40 PM
Thread Name: MIDI Volunteer Sought
Subject: RE: MIDI Volunteer Sought
A few more "completed" this afternoon. Moved along in the pipeline anyhow. :~) And hey, remember-- there's three of you but only one of me! :~)

~S~

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033 - tempo q72, voiced as vibraphone, no internal repeats (none indicated in page scan), entire song plays twice. Saved as NWC and MIDI.

046 - tempo q72, voiced as vibraphone, three sections with internal repeats as indicated in page scan, entire song plays twice. Saved as NWC and MIDI.

047 - tempo q72, voiced as vibraphone, three sections with internal repeats as indicated in page scan, entire song plays twice. Saved as NWC and MIDI. I believe that the second of the three sections is actually just a repeat of the first section, with the third as a chorus, and this would make lyric matching simpler as well.

052 - tempo q72, voiced as vibraphone, no internal repeats (none indicated in page scan), changed final ending note to a half note. Entire song plays twice. Saved as NWC and MIDI.

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Except for those being re-worked by Mark and Mary, listed above, and my own work on those, I believe this completes the revision of the rowing songs. When Mary is back, and I have Mary and Mark's resubmissions, I'll send the lot around to the group to hear as MIDIs and if we agree they are "done" I'll ask Pene to post them in the Mudcat MIDIs for now. (I like them well enough to post them as they are now, but I want the group's feedback.) Or we may open an "Allen Slave Songs" thread for posting miditext, links to Mudcat MIDIs, and reworked lyrics.

The next group will be the slow ones we're going to call "strains." I'll be voicing them in another instrument and we can post them as a group as well. I have no idea how many there may be that are best sung that way-- have to listen through all the MIDIs submitted and pick some.

The "strains" will be those even slower than a "shout." The commentary indicates that many, many of the 136 songs can be used either for shouts or for work/worship, so I would expect that the bulk of the remainder, after the strains, will be shouts or faster. My proofing skills are speeding up from doing these slower rowing songs, so this is a good order to take them in!

~Susan