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Short: Collection of Classic MED modules
Type: mods/med
Uploader: mneylon@engin.umich.edu (Michael K Neylon)
Author: cwquak@ruu.nl.cs (Iede Snoek)
I give here a few thingies I have made using that excellent program MED. Because I
have a classical education (I am a musicology student) there are only classical pieces in it.
I will give some extra information on all four of them:
1. ElGril.smp (El Grillo (=The Cricket))
This is a piece by the Dutch(!) composer Josquin des Prez (ca. 1440-1521).
It is made in honour of a king. The underlying text is:
"El Grillo e buon cantore" (The Cricket is a good singer)
The Cricket in this case is off course the king.
The musical form is a frottola. A characteristic of a frottola (pl. frottole) is the burden
at the beginning and the end. A frottola is always secular.
2. menuet.smp
This is from the suite in B-flat major by J.S. Bach (1685-1750). There is not really much
to tell about this piece. (I left the Trio-section out).
3. mmenuet.smp
Another menuet bij Joseph Rheinsbuerger (1674-1729) (That's what it says in the sheet music)
The key is G-minor.
4. VHH.smp
This is the christmas song "Von Himmel hoch" arranged for unaccompanied choir by J.S. Bach. It is supplied with
the Magnificat. Note the long notes of the song above a very contrapuntal and mobile background. It is (I think) one
of his masterpieces but unfortunately virtually unknown.
5. couperin2.smp
This is rondeau by Fr. Couperin, the famous 18th century harpsichord player. It is typically
French because it is witty and light-footed. Musique c'est pour faire plaisir. This attitude towards music, by the way,
has always been there in the French music up to the first halve of the twentieth century. Messiaen could be said the first not
to have this attitude (His music and that of Boulez is totally ugly).
The files with the extension *.smp are complete songs. (smp just means I've used samples).
The file couperin2.smp needs OctaMEDPlayer, all other files only need
MEDPlayer.
If you have any suggestions or good (I mean good more than 1 octave) samples please mail to the
address mentioned below or write to me personnally.
E-mail:
cwquak@ruu.nl.cs
Normal mail:
Iede Snoek
Leuvenumseweg 70 (from august 20th "v. Heemskercklaan 30")
3847 LD
Harderwijk
telephone: 03410-19696
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
1343 645 51.9% 28-Apr-92 16:23:58 ElGril.smp
55745 47054 15.5% 09-Jul-92 21:44:02 VHH.smp
28442 9978 64.9% 02-Aug-92 12:12:04 couperin2.smp
9077 6531 28.0% 18-Feb-92 15:01:42 menuet.smp
32574 5898 81.8% 28-Apr-92 16:17:20 mmenuet.smp
2213 1220 44.8% 14-Aug-92 13:51:24 music.doc
3660 2191 40.1% 14-Aug-92 13:51:46 music.dvi
2619 1435 45.2% 14-Aug-92 13:50:50 music.tex
-------- ------- ----- --------- --------
135673 74952 44.7% 14-Aug-92 06:00:00 8 files