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- Welcome to The Pianist.
- To start the program after installing - close this window and then click
- on the Pianist ICON .
- If your system has only 2mb memory total, see the bottom of this note
- for tips on maximizing performance.
-
- The Pianist is a Music Program containing a huge collection of over 200 of
- the world's most popular classical piano pieces, performed by world-class
- concert pianists!
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- Plus... Music Trivia Game,"Guess the Song", Program Notes, Biographies,
- Music Dictionary (all on disk).... and much more.
-
- All the pieces have been recorded "in real time " by concert pianists on
- an 88 note weighted MIDI piano keyboard. They are never quantized or step
- recorded. All are complete artistic performances professionally performed,
- recorded and saved as Standard MIDI files. You'll hear the music playing
- with CD-quality through your sound card or MIDI system, just as if the
- pianist was in your home.
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- All your favorite Pieces such as...
- Moonlight Sonata, Sonata Path tique, Claire de Lune, Liebestraume, Minute
- Waltz, Mephisto Waltz, Islamey, Hungarian Rhapsody, Flight of the
- Bumblebee, Nutcracker, Fantasie Impromptu, Military Polonaise... and over
- 200 more!!!
-
- All your favorite Composers...
- Now you can have all the greatest works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms,
- Chopin, Debussy, Faur , Granados, Grainger, Grieg, Haydn, Joplin, Liszt,
- Mendelssohn, Mozart, Mussogorsky, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Satie,
- Scarlatti, Schumann, Schubert, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky & many more.
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- Sort & play music by:
- Composer Name, type of piece, historic period, mood, difficulty, title or
- create your own personal "favorites files".
- Play single selections or sets of your favorite pieces or composers
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- Have some Fun!
- Play the Music Trivia Game with over 400 Questions about the music, the
- piano, and the composers.
- Or play the "Guess That Song" Game - the program selects and plays a piece
- at random for you to guess.
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- Educate yourself about the composers and their music
- Program Notes -Each piece has a memo describing the piece, with descriptive
- anecdotes & musical points. Composer Biographies & Pictures describe the
- lives & times of the composers. On-screen Music Dictionary explains the
- musical terms.
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- Learn how to Play the MUSIC
- On-screen piano keyboard lets you see the music as it's played. Learn the
- music by watching the on-screen keyboard or slowing down the performance.
- Other functions: Stop/Pause/Rewind/Slow Motion/Tempo Changes/
- Transposition/Volume/Velocity.
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- Play the music while you work in other programs!
- Playback continues in the background of other programs so you can listen to
- your favorite music while you work.
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- You can also use the Pieces in your other Music Programs or for your
- presentations
- Since the pieces are saved as Standard MIDI files, you can use these
- fabulous performances in your other music programs or as background
- music for presentations, music for telephone on-hold, etc.
-
- Use your Existing sound card or MIDI synthesizer
- Plays the music back through your existing MIDI synthesizer, digital
- piano or sound module. Windows users can playback through their SoundCard
- (Roland, SoundBlaster, etc.)
-
- From PG Music
- Phone orders: 1-800-268-6272 or 1-416-528-2368 or 1-905-528-2368
- VISA/MC/AMEX/cheque/mo/po# Fax 1-416-628-2541 or 1-905-628-2541
- PG Music Inc. 266 Elmwood Avenue Suite 111 Buffalo NY 14222
-
- For your
- PC Soundcard or MIDI system
-
- Requirements: Windows (IBM) 2mb RAM memory,Windows 3.1, Soundcard
- (Roland, SoundBlaster, etc.) or MIDI system with piano sound, 3.5" or 5.25"
- high density Floppy Disk, 3.5 mb hard drive space required.
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- Mac and Atari versions also available.
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- Users with 2mb total RAM memory.
- The Pianist runs on systems with 2mb memory . Users with 2mb should
- consider the following :
- You will find that the operation is much more efficient when more
- memory is available to the program. You can make more memory available
- to the Pianist by disabling the Dictonary and Biography files. To do this
- execute the following from the DOS prompt:
- rename Bio*.txt Bio*.sav
- rename Diction*.txt Diction*.sav
- This will improve operation for users with 2mb. Users with 3mb or more
- don't need to do this.
-
- Have Fun !
- Peter Gannon
- PG Music Inc.
-