1812 Overture Tchaikovsky - gcs format - 2025-04-16

1812 Overture Tchaikovsky - gcs format - 2025-04-16
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legatos working :) Amplified in audacity.

This is computer generated.

There are 62 'channels' needed for the 1812 Overture. A Midi file can only have 16 channels -- but you can cheat by putting the same instrument into one channel with multiple note-on/note-off overlapping. This fails if both are playing the same note.

Text file is in GCS format era 1977. I converted musicomp from Tutor to python, added crescendo, tempo changes, largo, etc. Output from the translation program can be: a) abc format (nice for viewing notes on screen), b) csv (comma separated values) [think excel spread sheet], and csvmidi to translate into a midi file, c) fluidsynth input format.

Fluidsynth input method can have more than 16 channels/instruments simultaneously playing. This uses GeneralUser_GS.sf2 for instruments. It was verified view viewing for key signatures, etc. with abcm2ps.

https://github.com/marshallmidden/m4.git File music/t/e/e.gcs. The Makefile will create the various formats for playing/viewing. It may seem complicated, but both music and programming can be... :)

At 3 minutes and 50 seconds is the standard part you'll recognize. :)

Recent change: instument locations (pan) and distance from the stage (angle).

It was in the 1920s that Leopold Stokowski, the conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, changed the orchestral instrument seating chart.

In addition, the audience is not directly in the middle of the instruments as the director is, but about the depth of the stage away from the stage. The "pan" for the instruments has been changed to match this location. As if you have a 45 degree view out of each eye of the stage.

https://www.redlandssymphony.com/arti...