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Table of Contents (TOC) of these Program Notes

• The Basics
  • Instrumentation
  • Duration
  • Composition date
  • Computer performer (when human one is absent)
  
  
• Structure notes
  
• MP3 and MIDI files
  
• Score package
  

The Basics

Instrumentation

Acoustic Guitar

Duration

3/4 minute

Composition date

This short 16-measure piece was composed in 2002 for my then 10-year-old grandson Pierre, who is studying classical guitar. It's a sort of étude for the lower strings -- and I'm grateful to Philip Hughes for helping ensure that my fingering and tablature arrangement was practical for a young performer. Three years previously, I had composed this piece originally as a trio for 2 recorders and piano (at the time Pierre was, as a 7-year-old, playing the recorder).

Computer performer (when human one is absent)

Like all the MIDI files here, it is in General MIDI form. The General MIDI patch (on the 0-127 numbering system) is:

	Part	General MIDI patch
		name	#
	Guitar	Acoustic Guitar (Nylon)	24

How it sounds will depend on your own playback software.

On my own synth I used the following patch:

	Part	Sound Module	Patch
			name	#
	Guitar	Roland JV880	Classical Guitar from the Orchestral Expansion Board (OEB)	185

This is what you hear on the mp3 files.

Structure notes

MP3 and MIDI files

Year	Title ... Instrumentation ...... Excerpts	Min: Sec	Complete MP3 files (better sound)** file size	MP3 file extracts (better sound)** file size	Complete MIDI file (not as good sound but quick)**
	The complete piece:
2002	Aire Pour Pierre ... guitar solo (there's a 2 recorders, piano trio version in 1999)	0:47	0.5 MB
	How the MIDI file sounds depends, of course, on your playback mechanism. On my computer, MIDI files are played by the QuickTime PlugIn and the guitar sounds pretty good (though the mp3 file is better). Of course, if you have a synthesizer, you can download the MIDI file and set the instrument to your own preferred patch -- but that's more work than downloading the mp3 file.
	Short excerpt:
	...... Intro and first part	0:21		0.2 MB
	This is a very brief piece so, in fact, this tiny intro covers the whole first half -- a somewhat mellower guitar sound.

** If you have a high-speed connection, forget about the MIDI files and just use the MP3 files (better). If you have a dial-up connection, consider the faster (but not as good) MIDI file only if the MP3 files seem to be taking too long to play or download.

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Score Package
(Click on icons below to download pdf and rtf files)

Year	Title ... Instrumentation	Description	No. of score pages	Score (pdf file) file size	No. of text pages	Text (rtf file) file size
2002	Aire Pour Pierre ... guitar solo	Guitar score	1	0.1 MB	7	4 KB
		Guitar score with tablature	2	0.1 MB

(you will need the free Stuffit Expander for decompressing the rtf.sitx files)
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http://www.rodmer.com/RodMusic/ProgramNotes/AirePierreGuitarNotes.html -- Revised Jul 28, 2005
Copyright © 2002 - 2005 Rod Anderson
rod@rodmer.com

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