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- ABOUT BEET5M1, BEET5M2, BEET5M3 and BEET5M4
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-
- Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C Minor, Opus 67
-
- In 1991, I sequenced Beethoven's Fifth Symphony *in its entirety*. Yup,
- these files have ALLA notes, and in the right order, too!! That's some-
- thing like forty minutes-worth of MIDI music!! You can grab either the
- MIDI files (.mid files) and/or Professional Composer scores for the Mac
- (.pro files). If you try to play this piece on your MIDI gear, be
- forwarned that you need a *heckuva lot* of MIDI horsepower, especially
- for the fourth movement where there are as many as 23 separate tracks
- blaring away simultaneously!!
-
-
- LEGAL:
-
- First of all, all of the enclosed files are in the public domain, so
- feel free to use them as you wish (commercially or otherwise) and to
- redistribute them far and wide. Second, you may modify the files as you
- wish, but PLEASE be sure to add a description of your changes to this
- ReadMe file and to distribute my comments intact with your modifications.
- Third, it took an *enormous* amount of time (three weeks) to enter the
- score from sheet music, so if you want to make a fellow hacker very happy,
- drop me a postcard or letter, or a few $$$ to keep the caffeine and midnight
- oil flowing here. Don't feel any obligation though -- but cheer me up
- enough and you may very well see Beethoven's Sixth and Ninth Symphonies,
- or other symphonic works, transcribed at some point in the future.
-
- You can send e-mail to the following address:
- bert@netcom.com
-
- Send all other correspondence to:
- Roberto Sierra
- Tempered MicroDesigns
- P.O. Box 170638
- San Francisco, CA 94117
-
-
- TECHNICAL INFORMATION:
-
- The MIDI files do not contain program, volume, or other synth-specific
- changes, so it should be a fairly simple matter to adapt the piece to
- fit any MIDI setup of sufficient horsepower. The Pro Composer files lack
- the all important tempo changes between sections and at firmatas. Also,
- the Composer files contain the score *as written*, whereas the MIDI files
- have all instruments voiced to their true pitch, after transposition. Thus,
- Clarinet and Horn parts written in Bb or Eb come out sounding right in MIDI.
- You may need to add or subtract an octave here or there to fit your gear,
- but what's there already should come pretty close right off the bat.
-
- Beethoven's Fifth Symphony in C Minor, Opus 67, consists of four movements
- for the instruments listed below. Beet5m1 is the first movement, Beet5m2
- is the second, and so on. If played in sequence, there should be no pause
- between the third and fourth movements -- you may want to combine these in
- your sequencer to play them as a single sequence.
-
- The MIDI files are multitrack files (Type 2), so you'll need to use a
- sequencer capable of reading Type 2 files. There are 18 tracks in the
- first three movements, and 23 tracks in the fourth movement, as shown
- below. I also have 16-track versions of the files available if anyone
- needs them. The 16-track files have had paired instruments joined (like
- Oboe 1 and Oboe 2 combined into a single track, for example).
-
- 1) Piccolo*
- 2) Flute 1
- 3) Flute 2
- 4) Oboe 1
- 5) Oboe 2
- 6) Clarinet 1
- 7) Clarinet 2
- 8) Bassoon 1
- 9) Bassoon 2
- 10) Contrabassoon*
- 11) French Horn 1
- 12) French Horn 2
- 13) Trumpet 1
- 14) Trumpet 2
- 15) Alto Trombone*
- 16) Tenor Trombone*
- 17) Bass Trombone*
- 18) Timpani
- 19) Violins I
- 20) Violins II
- 21) Violas
- 22) Cellos
- 23) Double Basses
-
- Notes:
- * ╤ The piccolo, double bassoon and trombones appear only in the
- fourth movement.
-
-
- The first three movements require a bit more than 32 notes of polyphony,
- and the fourth movement requires much more since there are several extra
- instruments and often the entire orchestra is blasting all at once very
- rapidly.
-
- If you have a dual MIDI interface, or can otherwise handle the full 23
- tracks, you may want to map individual instruments to the appropriate
- synthesizer channels and MIDI ports. You can map some of the instruments
- onto the same channel, if you wish (as I merged the woodwinds and brass
- pairs to prepare a 16 track MIDI version), but you should know that at
- times both instruments of a group are playing the same note. It will
- sound a little better if these instruments are kept on separate channels
- (maybe even detuned slightly) but this is a minor point in the grand
- scheme of things.
-
- I've got a Proteus/1 and Roland D-70 here, which contain just enough
- horsepower between them to handle all the instruments (more or less --
- the strings drop out from time to time during parts of the first and
- fourth movements, but I've been able to get around this by mixing
- multiple passes on DAT). If you have either of these devices, here
- are the presets I've been using -- they sound darned good to me. At
- some later date, I will make SysEx available for these settings, but
- it takes a lot of time to prepare, and there are a lot of technical
- issues to resolve for the D-70.
-
-
- PROTEUS/1 PRESETS:
- Channel Instrument Preset Volume Pan
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- 1 Trumpet 1 Solo Trumpet(36) 56 -2
- 2 Trumpet 2 Solo Trumpet(36) 56 +0
- 3 Double Bassoon Bassoon 1(**) 40 +5
- 4 Cellos String Orch(33) 96 -4
- 5 Double Basses String Orch(33) 118 +1
- 6 Tympani MedicineDrum(61) 100 P
- 7 Oboe 1 Uboe(115) 60 -4
- 8 Oboe 2 Uboe(115) 60 -2
- 9 Clarinet 1 Clarinet 1(**) 60 +3
- 10 Clarinet 2 Clarinet 1(**) 60 +5
- 11 Bassoon 1 Bassoon 1(**) 45 +2
- 12 Bassoon 2 Bassoon 1(**) 45 +4
- 13 French Horn 1 French Horn(170) 72 -4
- 14 French Horn 2 French Horn(170) 72 -2
- 15 Alto Trombone Trombone 2(171) 66 -6
- 16 Tenor Trombone Trombone 2(171) 66 -4
- +Bass Trombone
-
- ROLAND D-70 PRESETS:
- Channel Instrument Preset Volume Pan
- -----------------------------------------------------------
- 1 Flute 1 Ffflute(15)*** 14 ><
- 2 Flute 1 Ffflute(15)*** 14 ><
- +Piccolo
- 3 1st Violins Strings(9)**** 35 6>
- 4 2nd Violins Strings(9)**** 35 <1
- 5 Violas Strings(9)**** 35 <4
-
- ** ╤ These are special Proteus patches I got off a bulletin board.
- Let me know if you want a copy.
- *** ╤ Use only the second tone (Flute 1). Disable the first tone
- (Pan Pipes1), or you'll hear occasional notes dropping out.
- **** ╤ Use only the first tone (Strings 2). Disable the second
- (Str. Pad 1) and third tones (Rosin.Pad1), or you'll hear notes
- dropping out.
-
- OK, so the Uboe patch doesn't sound ANYTHING like an Oboe, and the
- Medicine Drum isn't REALLY going to sound like Tympani... What can
- I say? I wish I had a Proteus/2 or SampleCell, but I don't, so these
- sounds are the closest I could find.
-
-
- Anyway, this should be enough to get y'all started. Let me know if
- you encounter problems ╤ I'll be glad to upload a fix. I've been
- told that my arrangement is a bit 'dry', lacking volume and tempo
- variation, but that's partly because I haven't had the time to go
- back and add that to the MIDI files. Also, I don't want to add
- any synth-specific dynamics to the MIDI sequence, as then people
- will start to have trouble adapting the piece to suit their MIDI
- gear.
-
-
- QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, AND OBTAINING CASSETTE TAPES
-
- That is all. Hope you enjoy this splendid symphonic masterpiece. Please
- contact me at bert@netcom.com for questions and comments. For those who
- want to hear what this piece is supposed to sound like, you can send $7
- to the address below and I will send you a cassette tape (the money covers
- my cost, plus a bit for the time and effort spent). Please indicate
- the title of the song(s) you are interested in, whether you prefer
- Dolby B, C or no noise reduction, and allow N weeks for delivery.
- [For delivery outside the US, enclose 5$US and a self-addressed
- prepaid envelope.]
-
- ---> Roberto Sierra
- Tempered MicroDesigns
- P.O. Box 170638
- San Francisco, CA 94117
-
- bert@netcom.com
-
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