RE:  The Flip Side of _Painting_the_Town_

Hey guys- the response to the "Painting" MIDI file has been very
encouraging.  I was commissioned by the Regimental Band of the U.S.
Merchant Marine Academy to write- and this is no joke-
_A-Parrott-Tefe_Rag_ for full concert band.  (The band's director,
Capt. Kenneth Force,  is a parrot fan as well as a ragtime devotee.  He
tends Scott Joplin's gravesite in NY!).

A friend and musical acquaintance, George McClellan, (a ragtime
composer of merit himself), is experimenting with MIDI band voicings to
provide a basic recording of this chart (I'm still trying to get my
keyboard to input- output into the music program I'm using, so you can
tell what a beginner I am with MIDI).  I should have a MIDI file on
this one sometime this week to send you by disk.

The point is-  since I technically "own" this copyright until I assign
it to another publisher,  which I may do,  as the piece is written at a
grade 2 level for younger band,  I want to "donate" it for you guys to
share with the band organ MIDI fans.  As far as both my band organ and
human concert band experience goes,  band organ rolls were divided up
into the "tracks" or staves and voices that are present on the
old-style concert band score, i.e.; (from the highest down)  Bells,
upper woodwind ornamentation; melody;  accompaniment; countermelody;
bass; drums. There are cresc.-dim.  hairpins as well as regularly
expression indications on the score.  This work has already been
converted to a MIDIfile;  it would take the artistry of y'all to turn
it into a band organ piece like the "Painting" file.

Oh yes-  there are two-bar breaks in the Trio section that indicate
"parrott squawks and talks" for the band's percussion section. I doubt
that such an imitative acoustical device may be found on a band organ
(even a photoplayer's or some Hupfeld Pan's birdwhistles fall short),
but it would be an excuse to insert a .WAV file of a parrott(s) at that
point.

Feedback?

S.K.Goodman¶
adbytes@delphi.com