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Topic: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, binaural, 60 db dynamic, C. Griffes

I am placing the text I insert in my YouTube videos below to provide better information as to how the video was made:

"The music is prepared from scores of music in the public domain. After scanning and note recognition (SmartScore 64 Pro), the derived MIDI file is extensively edited using Logic Pro X (piano plug-in is a morphed combination of 2 Steingraeber presets and 1 Bechstein preset from Modartt's Pianoteq 7.4 - 7.5). The music is binaurally processed (best heard through headphones). The large dynamic range may strike you as odd given that most popular music is compressed, thus reducing the dynamic range. This dynamic range provides a better representation of an actual concert grand piano dynamics. As the owner of the copyright for the MIDI file,I have chosen to make the MIDI files available for any usage. See the About tab for contact information.

Although I was extensively trained in piano (my final teacher was a student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli), arthritis has made making music in this fashion a necessity if I am to continue making music."

Here's the link: https://youtu.be/9d59QDrdqU8

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Re: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, binaural, 60 db dynamic, C. Griffes

I have never heard of this Griffes so I had to read about him:
One of his most famous works is The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, after the fragment by Coleridge 1912.

Very interesting music. Nice to learn new things. Thank you, Dave.
It sound so majestic and chinese so I had to search, research a bit more  about all this kubla….

”The Mongol ruler and Chinese emperor Kubla Khan's summer palace, called "Xanadu," describing it as a place of beauty, pleasure, and violence. ...
Kublai Khan, Mongolian emperor of China and grandson of Genghis Khan who completed his grandfather's conquest of China..”

I also read the poem and now I understand the music 
And Canadian rock band Rush refers to the poem directly in the 1977 song Xanadu, in which the narrator searches for a place called "Xanadu" that he believes will grant him immortality.
British band Frankie Goes to Hollywood alludes to the poem in the song Welcome to the Pleasuredome from its eponymous 1984 debut album.
I listened to these too, on yt.

Thanks Dave.
Our brain can learn new things regardless of age. However, I have noticed that it goes a little slower and slower each year for me, but it don't bother me as long as I remember.....   

Waiting for next,

Best wishes,

Stig

p.s. The lower end is like felt piano and the higher end like a piano. That's fantastic because people normally choose either, not both at the same time!

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Re: The Pleasure Dome of Kubla Khan, binaural, 60 db dynamic, C. Griffes

Thanks for your comments, Stig!

Excellent research, and as always, useful information. I tend to associate "Xanadu" with Howard Hughes, but this was well after Griffes' time. Sad to say, he died young as a victim of the "Spanish Flu".

Cheers!

Dave