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Table of Contents (TOC) of these Program Notes

• The Basics
  • Instrumentation
  • Duration
  • Composition date
  • Computer performers (when human ones are absent)
  
  
• Structure notes
  
• MP3 and MIDI files
  
• Score package
  

The Basics

Instrumentation

Four options are provided:

1. Soprano recorder, alto recorder, piano (trio)
2. Two soprano recorders and piano (trio)
3. Soprano recorder and alto recorder (duet)
4. Two soprano recorders (duet)

Scores are provided for each of the above four alternatives. But the music files (MIDI and mp3) are just of the first alternative. (Wherever an F alto recorder is used the score is transposed form -- as if in C).

Duration

1 minute

Composition date

This short 19-measure piece was composed for my then 7-year-old grandson, Pierre, in 1999 at which time he was playing recorder (and my daughter could accompany him on the piano). Three years later, in 2002, at which time 10-year-old Pierre was studying classical guitar, I recast the piece as a guitar solo.

Computer performers (when human ones are absent)

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

	Part	General MIDI patch
		name	#
	Piano	Acoustic Grand Piano	0
	Soprano Recorder	Recorder	74
	Alto Recorder	Recorder	74

How they sound will depend on your own playback software.

On my own synth I used the following patches:

	Part	Sound Module	Patch
			name	#
	Piano	Roland RD500	Gr Piano A1	0
	Soprano Recorder	Roland JV880	Recorder on the Orchestral Expansion Board (OEB)	91
	Alto Recorder	Roland JV880	Recorder on the OEB	91

These are 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:
1999	Aire Pour Pierre ... 2 recorders & piano trio (there's a solo guitar version in 2002)	1:07	0.8 MB
	How the MIDI file sounds depends, of course, on your playback mechanism. On my computer, MIDI files are played by the QuickTime PlugIn. This one doesn't come out too badly although the piano is perhaps a little soft in relation to the recorders (I should fix). The mp3 files are mellower. Of course, if you have a synthesizer, you can download the MIDI file and set the instruments to your own preferred patches -- but that's more work than downloading the mp3 file.
	Short excerpt:
	...... Intro and first half	0:34		0.3 MB
	This is such a tiny piece that even this small excerpt is a whole half of it. The piano is mellower and in better balance with the recorders.

** 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
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Year	Title ... Instrumentation	Description	No. of score pages	Score (pdf file) file size	No. of text pages	Text (rtf file) file size
1999	Aire Pour Pierre ... soprano recorder, alto recorder & piano trio	Complete score	3	0.1 MB	7	4 KB
	... two soprano recorders & piano trio	Complete score	3	0.1 MB
	... soprano recorder & alto recorder duet	Complete score	1	0.1 MB
	... two soprano recorders duet	Complete score	1	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/AirePierreRecorderNotes.html -- Revised Jul 28, 2005
Copyright © 1999 - 2005 Rod Anderson
rod@rodmer.com

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