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- J O H N ' S W A R P O N I E S
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- More Music by the Masters
-
- Played by John Andrew Kaputa
- Text also by John
-
-
- This collection consists of Six-
- voice Stereo SID classical music
- entered between May 1999 and July 2000
- using "The Enhanced Sidplayer Editor
- 128" by Craig Chamberlain and Compute!
- Pub's; for playback using "64 Stereo
- Player Version 10.3" by Mark A.
- Dickenson and the no longer available
- SID Symphony Stereo Cartridge. See
- Note (1) below.
-
- For instructions on how to use the
- STEREO PLAYER, read "t.stereoplayer"
- (on any of the above Loadstar issues).
- A six-voice stereo SID cartridge or
- chip is necessary for hearing all six
- voices together. Single SID chip users
- can hear only the "left" or the
- "right" three voices (using comma or
- period keys after the initial loading
- of a piece). However, this is like
- reading all the odd numbered pages in
- a novel before starting the first even
- numbered page; not very enjoyable. See
- Note (2) below.
-
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- C O N T E N T S
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- TWO OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH'S
- HARPSICHORD CONCERTI (CA 1735)
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- See Notes (3) and (4) below.
-
- Concerto in D Minor (BWV 1052)
- harpsichord and strings
- beginning 8:00 min
- middle 4:54 min
- conclusion 9:05 min
- (SID entered SEP 1999)
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- EXCERPTS FROM THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS
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- (Clavier-Ubung Part IV)
- See Note (6) below.
- By Johann Sebastian Bach
- (Published 1742)
- Aria 2:44 min
- Variation No. 1. 2:43 min
- Variation No. 2. 1:52 min
- Variation No. 3. 2:49 min
- Variation No. 4. 1:22 min
- (SID entered MAR 2000)
- See Note (5) below.
-
-
- NOTES
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-
- Note (1) I request that someone come
- up with a C=64 emulator for the PC
- that also has the capability to
- emulate the SID Symphony Stereo
- Cartridge for the running of Mark
- Dickenson's 64 Stereo Player Ver 10.3,
- enabling more people to hear my music.
- VICE 1.9 now has stereo SID. Hooray!
-
- Of course, some may consider my music
- comparable to home movies, which are
- usually torturous to those forced to
- endure the screenings. If you think
- otherwise, contact LOADSTAR to obtain
- my previously published renditions,
- JOHN'S WAR HORSES and JOHN'S WAR
- NAGS.
-
- Note (2) The volume settings of the
- right (.str) and the left (.mus)
- channels are adjusted to balance on my
- stereo system; you may need to adjust
- your system's balance knob.
-
- Note (3) Bach often transcribed his
- earlier works for different groups of
- instruments; therefore a few of these
- harpsichord concerti have similar
- melodies as some of his more famous
- works: one or two of his Brandenburg
- Concerti (ca 1721) and his Three
- Violin Concerti (1717-23) BWV 1041 in
- A Minor, BWV 1042 in E Major, and BWV
- 1043 in D Minor.
-
- Note (4) After I had first finished
- these seven Bach concerti, I started
- working on his keyboard music (English
- and French Suites, Partitas, and The
- Goldberg Variations). When I was
- halfway through the six Partitas I
- decided my harpsichord renditions
- didn't cut it for two reasons:
-
- (4a) The first being that all notes
- longer than quarter notes died out too
- soon. This was corrected by increasing
- judiciously their SUS and DCY values
- by one or two depending on the notes
- duration.
-
- (4b) The second being the wrong
- soundingness of many of my seat-of-
- the-pants interpretations of the
- various symbols (curlicues, squiggles,
- and zigzags) that Bach used to specify
- his musical ornamentation. This was
- corrected after a many hours of study
- in my new copy of "Harvard Dictionary
- of Music, Second Edition, Revised and
- Enlarged" by Willi Apel. The fact that
- the meanings and names of many of
- these symbols have changed over the
- years, only made my task more
- difficult. I hope most of them now
- conform to the practices of the
- baroque period (1600-1750) of musical
- history. I am slowly revising my
- earlier works with both sets of these
- changes.
-
- Note (5) These short Variations looked
- easy on paper until I tried to figure
- out the correct ornamentation. Even
- then they were easy to "punch" into
- the computer--I learned Fortran II in
- 1963. However, I'm greatly impressed
- with anyone who has mastered the
- technique required to play these in
- real time on a actual clavichord,
- harpsichord, or piano, where not only
- must the mind coordinate both hands,
- but that it can also apply the minute
- variations in dynamics and tempo
- necessary to provide the music with a
- sense of soul. Computer music, at
- least as performed by me, is just the
- product of a glorified music box.
-
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- JOHN'S POST-MUMBLES
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- I spend four to six hours a day
- having fun working on my music. At
- this time I am ready to start on J.S.
- Bach's Goldberg Variation No. 26,
- having completed the first twenty-five
- out of thirty. I alternate these with
- Johann Pachelbel's many Fugues on the
- Magnificat for Organ or Keyboard
- played by my six horn brass ensemble.
- My next major task will be another
- Mozart concerto. I'm still not up to
- tackling Beethoven's Fourth, Sixth, or
- Eighth Symphonies. His Ninth shall
- ever remain unsullied by my hands.
-
- I'm still learning and will accept
- any constructive criticism; however,
- since I gave up my day job in 1993,
- three years prior to starting this
- musical hobby, that pony won't fly!
-
- Thanks anyway,
-
- John, JUL 25 MM
-
-
- AFTER-NOTE: As I jiggered around the
- files and filled up Side 3 with as
- much of John's music as possible, I
- discovered that notes on some of the
- compositions are not in these docs.
- Oh, well.
-
- The SID Symphony cartridge is no
- longer available. Perhaps another way
- to get the stereo effect is to use two
- C-64's -- which more of us have than
- the stereo cartridge!
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