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clark · Post by **clark** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 4:40 pm

Well, maybe I'm missing something; but when I downloaded the two sheets from serpent I only see the melody and not the other parts. At the end it says "for 3 tenor recorders" but where are the other parts? The left side of each line is cut off at the clef mark - so maybe someting is missing?

Clark

GaryKelly · Post by **GaryKelly** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 7:38 am

I found another arrangement at musci-scores.com.

For convenience, I've zipped up the .pdf of the arrangement

here

It looks and sounds a bit more like I remembered it...

FJohnSharp · Post by **FJohnSharp** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:09 am

clark wrote:Well, maybe I'm missing something; but when I downloaded the two sheets from serpent I only see the melody and not the other parts. At the end it says "for 3 tenor recorders" but where are the other parts? The left side of each line is cut off at the clef mark - so maybe someting is missing?

Clark

Each player plays the same part, just they start two measures apart. Kind of like a round. At the end, there are three fermadas, spaced two measures apart. The first player plays to the end, the second stops two from the end and the third player stops four from the end. The two bass line measures on the second page are played by a fourth instrument and repeat ad nauseum.

There should have been a third document that came with the music, that explained how to play it.

Eliezer · Post by **Eliezer** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 4:14 pm

Perhaps we can get everyone together in Ohio and play the "Wabash Canon Ball".

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 8:27 pm

GaryKelly wrote:I found another arrangement at musci-scores.com.

For convenience, I've zipped up the .pdf of the arrangement

here

It looks and sounds a bit more like I remembered it...

Argh!! Viola clef!
Sorry my playing instructions didn't come across on the .jpg. I did indicate where each whistle starts and ends. Thanks to whoever did the explanation here.
The arrangement I posted was by a superb recorder maker and musician who REALLY knows his Baroque music. You can be sure that it is quite authentic. If you can find two friends who can read the music ( or one friend and a tape recorder) you will be amazed at how wonderful this piece is. The canonical nature of it can't easily be appreciated by listening to the more usual baroque orchestral version you hear everywhere.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:32 am

Very nice!

I transcribed this into ABC. Give me a day or two to check it out, and i'll post it here. You can use the ABC to generate a clean printout.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 3:00 pm

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:05 pm

Glauber-- just played through the .pdf and it looks perfect. Great job!

Folks-- give this a try, even if you do it all by yourself with a tape recorder. Amazingly good piece which you will appreciate even more once you play it yourself and see how superb the canonic writing is.

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Nov 11, 2003 6:16 pm

Paul, do you have any information you can give on who made the arrangement? Was it you? I'd like to credit him/her before i submit this to JCs.

I need to reword the "starts" too. If i understand right, the 2nd flute starts when the first one is playing it's 3rd bar of melody, and so on... And you need a very patient bass player to play his schtick thing over and over. Good application for a sequencer.

g

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:57 pm

I made minor changes to the PDF version, available from the URL above. Cosmetic changes only.

dlovrien · Post by **dlovrien** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 6:38 am

Great job, Glauber!

bjs · Post by **bjs** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 9:14 am

Anybody got a nice mp3 of this that I could play along with?
The abc is a bit tinkly

Brian

Kar · Post by **Kar** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 10:50 am

I've got that "Pachelbel's Greatest Hit" CD. It's quite fun. The choral version is very silly.

Usually, anything with even 16th notes makes me shudder, but I guess if I play this reaaaaaaaal slooooow, maybe it'll be OK and I'll get over my BIG fear of 32nd notes.

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 12:15 pm

In light of the fact that this is a classical, not ITM piece, what do those of you who can play this well do when you come to the strings of same-note 16th notes?(semi-quavers to you ITM guys.)
Do you cut each note, or forego traditional whistling style and staccato-tongue them?

Joe_Atlanta · Post by **Joe_Atlanta** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:35 pm

Kar wrote:Usually, anything with even 16th notes makes me shudder, but I guess if I play this reaaaaaaaal slooooow, maybe it'll be OK and I'll get over my BIG fear of 32nd notes.

Yeah, it's tough if you don't read them regularly, because they most often "felt" rather than counted (1 ta E ta & ta A ta). Looks to me like the original arranger was saving time and space by using 32nds. IMO, the whole thing should have been better written out using 16ths instead of 32nds, 1/8ths instead of 16ths, etc. The give away is that the bass line is using 1/4 notes here instead of 1/2s (like you find in other arrangements of this music).

I think LimuHead had the right idea in rewriting it and doubling the length of each note. OR (for lazy folks like me) you can take a printout of the pdf and split all the measures (just draw in the extra lines), then count the piece sustituting the next higher note value. For me, it made it much easier, YMMV. Maybe it's just (to borrow from F.Zappa) that I "can't appreciate the statistical density" of the arrangement.

BTW, none of this is meant as criticism towards the folks who posted the music. It's a great arrangement and my thanks go to brewerpaul and glauber.

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