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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[Re: A special music for F.E. Blanchet (1733)]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>This is indeed a very funny and stimulating scene.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure, but I am guessing that Salieri&#039;s &quot;original&quot; was composed for the film as a suitable foil for Mozart&#039;s &quot;elaboration&quot; which is, of course, the music for Figaro&#039;s Act 1 aria &quot;Non più andrai&quot; from &quot;The Marriage of Figaro&quot;.&nbsp; It would be easy to find a few bars of music like this in most composers&#039; output from that period, if in fact Salieri&#039;s &#039;primitive&#039; version is real Salieri.</p><p>It would not be a big deal to transcribe the music by ear, if anyone was interested.</p><p>Can&#039;t wait to save the required funds for the historic add-ons, I&#039;m enjoying the trial version meanwhile (but avoiding keys like Eb major!)</p><p>What must be stressed is the astonishing playability of this software.&nbsp; My own violin (I play with the local symphony) is not an expensive instrument, my 2nd violin even less so.&nbsp; Yet, after an exclusive Schubert dinner concert where I played several pieces with piano accompaniment—on my student-grade 2nd violin due to repairs on my 1st— I was complimented by knowledgable music-lovers on the tone of the instrument which &quot;must be very expensive&quot;.&nbsp; The trick here (and no way on earth that poor $600 violin can compete in any way with a &#039;proper&#039; concert instrument in direct comparison) is that it is, after all, a REAL violin, and can therefore be played &#039;properly&#039; by a real violinist.&nbsp; Pianoteq has this &#039;playability&#039; and encourages a return to musical expression, quite independent of considerations of &#039;wood&#039;, &#039;inharmonicity&#039; etc.&nbsp; How many repetiteurs just &#039;put up&#039; with whatever piano comes along, no matter how poorly regulated or tuned?&nbsp; Never mind the often abominable acoustics of typical practice rooms.&nbsp; In this case, the ear adapts and is satisfied MAINLY because the instrument—being a real instrument—is PLAYABLE.&nbsp; </p><p>This can be taken too far naturally.&nbsp; On tour in North Queensland some years back, we were forced to revert to the travelling Roland digital instrument, as the town of Richmond&#039;s piano had lost several of its black key tops which, in addition to many other symptoms of extreme neglect, made this miserable instrument practically UNplayable.&nbsp; At another venue we decided the upright was a better bet than the house grand which, too, was suffering from the indignity of chronic neglect.</p><p>Quite possibly the infusion of RANDOM tuning effects on a key by key basis would be a great boost to the subjective realism of the modelling.&nbsp; Also the regrettable but unavoidable TEMPORAL drift of tuning stability in the course of a heavy recital or concerto eg. Brahms Concerto No.1.&nbsp; I have heard Steinway Ds reduced to quite comic effect in the slow movement, as the tuning has drifted out of all reason.&nbsp; Recording an outstanding young pianist&#039;s recital at our local Conservatorium, I winced as he attempted a Bach encore following heavy Prokofiev and Ligeti pieces (this on a super-duper Shigeru Kawai 9 foot).&nbsp; If ever we can create a modelling instrument with the appropriate hardware and sound characteristics, soloists will welcome it with open arms (so to speak), if only for that reason.</p><p>Sorry, I&#039;ve rambled off the thread, but you see how stimulating the software is to someone like myself who has been chasing a playable virtual piano literally for decades!&nbsp; I truly believe this project is on the right track.&nbsp; Full marks.</p><p>Cheers,</p><p>Stephen.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[stephenphillips]]></name>
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			<title type="html"><![CDATA[A special music for F.E. Blanchet (1733)]]></title>
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			<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>I think we should create another fine music for F.E. Blanchet add-on.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I Propose a interesting competition for this forum, not for compose, but for play this song, from the film Amadeus. The music it&#039;s probably fictional, made for the fim, but certainly interesting and quite funny in the context of the film.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciFTP_KRy4&amp;feature=related">http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=-ciFTP_KR...re=related</a>&nbsp; (english)</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOKsQJS3rI&amp;feature=related">http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=kvOKsQJS3...re=related</a> (italian)</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; <a href="http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=57I7sdn7VtQ&amp;feature=related">http://br.youtube.com/watch?v=57I7sdn7V...re=related</a>&nbsp; (spanish)<br />&nbsp; &nbsp; <br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;The competition would focus the abiity to take the music itself, by ears and, of course, perfome it on F.E. Blanchet Add On.</p><p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Would be quite interesting to each participant to make a natural transition, from the film context, of Salieri&#039;s music to the adapted Mozart&#039;s version.</p>]]></content>
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				<name><![CDATA[Beto-Music]]></name>
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			<updated>2008-01-20T23:11:03Z</updated>
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