Forever Autumn Words & Music by Jeff Waye/Paul Virgrass/Gary Osborn From The War of the Worlds double Album & CD Stored on this Disk as a MIDI File format 1 Arranged for MIDI by Kevan R.Craft & Gareth R.Craft (c) 1993 MIDICraft Compositions and Arrangements Justin Hayward, one of several speacialists assembled by producer Jeff Wayne to wage his star studded 'War Of The Worlds', had his biggest hit single since the Moody Blues 1970 hit 'Question' when 'Forever Autumn' reached number 5 in the U.K. charts. The parent (then) album (now CD), a musical interpretation of H.G. Well's novel, was among the year 1970 best sellers. This number is quite haunting and succesfully manages to juxtaposition the Gaelic/Folk tradition with Rock and is superbly scored for an ochestra by Jeff Wayne. That's three musical genres combined to produce an evocative musical landscape for Justin Hayward's lyrical singing. That's not bad for a long haired tw*t from the Midlands in the U.K. is it? There doesn't appear to be many composers/songwriters producing such work as this in this day and age. The majority of popular composers/songwriters are far too busy getting to grips with MIDI and Sampling technology and have appeared to forgot their 'Mother Earth' aspect to musical celebration. Lets hope that this small musical contribution goes towards restoring that ballance. Hope you enjoy the music.... 'Forever Autumn' can be found on these recordings:- Jeff Wayne Albums Highlights Album C.B.S./April 85 CBS 32356 Cass C.B.S./April 85 40 32356 Album C.B.S./Nov 81/Del Nov 86 CBS 85337 War of the Worlds Album C.B.S./July 78 CBS 96000 CD C.B.S./ ? CBS 96000 Justin Hayward 7 inch single single C.B.S. /Jan 87 CBS 6268 single Old Gold/Jan 87 OG 9401 Classic Blue Album TRAY/Oct 89 MODEM 1040 Cass TRAY/Oct 89 MODEMC 1040 CD TRAY/Oct 89 MODCD 1040 PAGE 2 Forever Autumn Words & Music by Jeff Waye/Paul Virgrass/Gary Osborn The summer sun is fading as the year grows old An' darker days are drawing near The winter winds will be much colder Now your not here.... I watched the birds fly south across the Autumn sky An' one by one they disappeared I wish that I was flying with them Now your not here.... Like the sun through the trees you came to love me Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away.............. Through Autumn's golden gown we used to kick our way You always love this time of year Those fallen leaves lie undisturbed now 'Cos your not here 'Cos your not here 'Cos your not here.......... Like the sun through the trees you came to love me Like a leaf on a breeze you blew away............... A gentle rain falls softly on my weary eyes As if to hide a lonely tear.. my life will be Forever Autumn 'Cos your not here 'Cos your not here 'Cos your not here........... MORE TEXT BELOW! PAGE 3 Configure your sequencer and or MIDI set up as follows:- Sequencer set up for MIDI: MIDI set up for generic MIDI file format 1 ____________________________________________________________________ | | | | | | SEQ No. | MIDI CHANNEL | SEQUENCE NAME | PAN | |___________|________________|_____________________________|_________| | | | | | | 1 | 1 | Acoustic Piano Counterpoint | Centre | | 2 | 2 | Fretless Bass | Centre | | 3 | 3 | Soft Strings | Centre | | 4 | 4 | Soft Strings (low Octave) | Centre | | 5 | 5 | Flute (Vocal Melody) | Centre | | 6 | 6 | Nylon Guitar | Centre | | 7 | 7 | Soft Strings (Ending) | Centre | | 8 | 8 | Voice Aahs/Human Choir | Centre | | | | | | | 10 | 10 | Drums[Roland GMGS Standard] | Default | |___________|________________|_____________________________|_________| | | | Tempo = 120 Time Signature = 4/4 Song Length = 140 bars | | Running Time of Song = 4 mins 20 Secs approx | |____________________________________________________________________| MIDICraft Compositions and Arrangements Kevan R.Craft & Gareth R.Craft 12 Mount Road Halton Runcorn Cheshire. WA7 2BH. England. U.K. Tel: +44 0928 563762