ClassicalMusic

Short:        Collection of Classic MED modules
Author:       cwquak@ruu.nl.cs (Iede Snoek)
Uploader:     mneylon engin umich edu (Michael K Neylon)
Type:         mods/med
Architecture: generic

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