The Flip Side of Painting the Town
By Stephen Kent Goodman
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
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