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Table of Contents (TOC) of these Program Notes

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

The Basics

Instrumentation

Piano

Duration

Composition date

Jan-Feb 2004

First performance

The first performance was given at a house concert here in SwallowHill (Cobourg On) on Feb 28, 2004 with Cecilia Ignatieff at the piano.

Introduction

A short, light-hearted romp of just under 3 minutes. While the piece is predominatnly in Eb Major, there are so many chromatic shifts throughout that I have simply notated the piece without a key signature.

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	#
	Piano	Acoustic Grand Piano	0

How it sounds 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

This is what you hear on the mp3 files.

Structure notes

MP3 and MIDI files
(Click on icons below to play MIDI and/or download MP3 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)**
	The complete piece:
2004	SwallowHill Skip ... piano solo	2:46	3.1 MB
	How the MIDI files below sound depends, of course, on your playback mechanism. On my computer, MIDI files are played by the QuickTime PlugIn and the piano sound is a little tinny but not too bad for this piece. In comparison, the mp3 file (recorded from my sound-module patch) sounds a bit mellower. 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 complete mp3 file.
	Short extracts:
	...... intro & start of 1st theme	0:37		0.4 MB
	This mp3 excerpt covers the introduction and the start of the first theme.
	...... excerpt from middle section	0:29		0.3 MB
	This mp3 excerpt covers Theme 2b plus the following Episode B.
	...... ending	0:28		0.3 MB
	This mp3 excerpt covers a tail end of Theme 1 followed by Episode A, Theme 1 start, and the coda.

** 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/or rtf files)

Year	Title ... Instrumentation	Description	No. of score pages	Score (pdf file) file size	No. of text pages	Text (rtf file) file size
2004	SwallowHill Skip ... piano solo	Piano score	7	0.2 MB	2	0.2 MB

(you will need the free Stuffit Expander for decompressing the rtf.sitx files)
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Copyright © 2004-2005 Rod Anderson
rod@rodmer.com

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