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Alda tutorial Alda is a text-based programming language for music composition. It allows you to write and play back music using only a text editor and the command line. August 17, 2021 at 02:31PM

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Great resource

Another very useful text processing tool for text based data files.

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library: Free Public Domain Sheet Music

Great resource

tags: music classical library

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This is worth looking at: It was an utterly unexpected rebirth. from the moment Freddie Mercury and the other members of Queen – guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bassist John Deacon – took the stage at London’s Wembley Stadium, on July 13th, 1985, at the historic Live Aid concert, the group captured the day. Here’s the full article.

If you are, or ever were, a Billy Joel Fan you will really like this interview. Fascinating to read what seem to be the reasonably honest thoughts and feelings of a Rock Star!

Billy Joel on Not Working and Not Giving Up Drinking – NYTimes.com:

So he doesn’t write anymore, not pop songs anyway. Instead he goes about his relatively ordinary life in plain sight in a cedar shake house in the middle of Sag Harbor village. He has a few of his vintage motorcycles in the garage, and his boat slip is within walking distance. He is seemingly never alone, spending his time in the company of hi...

I picked up David Byrne’s new book: How Music Works while waiting around in a bookstore. I flipped it to this page with this quote which I thought was quite cool. If I remember he was quoting something else. Anyway, I wonder how this general idea can be adapted to other forms of improvisation, like designing software products or teaching. I am thinking. Do you have an idea?

I am (after 10 years) a beginner pianist who wants to improve. I practice, but not diligently enough. On average I think I practice 5 days a week, for about 1/2 hour, so that’s less than 3 hours a week. Clearly I could do better. But I am proud of the effort I put in and I definitely have made a lot of progress. But I am at best still an advanced beginner.

From an article,“If you’re busy, you’re doing something wrong”,

“We can start by disproving the assumption that the elite players dedicate ...

[](Y.Squarespace.Utils.lightboxAsset()I designed the calendar to the right to help me keep track of my piano practice. As you know, maybe, to learn piano you need to practice every day. Well I don’t do that regularly enough, and as a result (and general clumsyness) my piano study is going at a snails pace. So of course, technology to the rescue.

Jerry Seinfeld described how he would force himself to do something every day. In his case, work on his comedy. He would put an X on each day in his calendar when he worked. He would then psych himself up to never break the string of X’s, and...

As you know, I am a big big fan of Spotify. Lately I’ve been playing with the Last.FM integration. It’s a handy way for me to see what new music or artists I might like to listen to. I’ve discovered plenty of new music that way, it’s great.

What I would like is to be able to ask Spotify (or Last.FM) for a ‘radio’ station which plays music that I might like to hear. This feature exists but it doesn’t suit me because it would jump from a raucous rock piece to a quiet jazz piece to a strange folk piece. Generally I play music based on a general mood I am in or want. Quiet Jazz in the morning and upbeat stuff (load) when I am washing dishes. You get the idea.

If you work for Spotify, what do you think?

What I don’t get is the price. First I had to have bought the music (from Apple or someone else) and now I have to pay again ($24.95 per year) in order to make it all available over iCloud. I think I will stick with my new favorite, Spotify.

I am sure I don’t fully understand the details, but it seems to me that the essential benefit that the new iTunes provide is that I can access my whole music collection (as far as it is ‘legal’) from any device attached to iCloud. Anything else?

Well, I think the very idea of ‘owning’ a music collection is antiquated. I mean it’s evidently inefficient that millions of people have a copy of the same bits that form “Let It Be” on each of their computers....

I have become a total Spotify addict. I have almost totally stopped downloading MP3s and am gradually locating all my favorite music on Spotify. I posed a couple of semi-sceptical notes when I first started using Spotify and so I am due for an update, right?

Cancelled Rhapsory, trying Spotify

Spotify, Genres???

Update about Spotify I

So what has happened since? I find that I am using Spotify on my iPhone and on my computer, all the time. Occasionally I will dip back into my large iTunes collection to remind me of artists that I want to listen to. But I promptly go onto S...

So I have now been using Spotify for about a week after sumarily deserting Rhapsody (no stickyness at all!) Here’s my summary:

Pro Spotify

Has a nice downloadable client on Mac which I can launch from the Dock

I seem to be discovering some new music from non-American Jazz artists. Not sure this is a credit to Spotify or just luck

Neutral

Exactly the same price

Apparently equally large catalogs

Against Spotify

Relies purely on an obscure search syntax (e.g. “genre:”Piano Jazz”) to search genres

Does not have ratings based on genres – i.e. top downloads or new this week in Classical.

Has a confusing relationship with iTunes. Why does it offer me to ‘download’ my iTunes and make it available ‘offline’? iTunes already does this on iPhone

No way to know what ‘genres’ it actually knows about beyond the obvious: “Classical” and so on. Is there “Singer Songwriter”? Is there “New Orleans Jazz”? No idea.

Jury is still out for me…

Ok a few hours into it, I’ve located what looks like a major weakness in Spotify. One of the fun things about Rhapsody is discovering new music. What are the top albums in “Piano Jazz”. Had to look and look for a similar feature in Spotify. The closest I can find is to type this into the search box:

genre:”piano jazz”

Oy! And by the way, how am I supposed to know that “piano jazz” is a legitimate genre? Oh just look on this list.

Whoops. Piano Jazz is not a real genre, so it doesn’t work.

Any one know any tips?

As I said in the previous post, I am a bit of a promiscuous signer upper. From a cursory look, Rhapsody and Spotify are fairly similar. They both charge $10 per month for unlimited listening to all kinds of music. I saw a few blog posts that took one side or the other.

With all the geek news about spotify, one would like to know more. So, I capriciously cancelled my Rhapsody and am now trying the new thing.

That’s a problem they both have. No stickiness whatsoever. I know that for example the Sonos product supports Rhapsody. If I had spent $1000’s of dollars on a Sonos set up (like friends of mine have) AND Sonos didn’t support Spotify, then I might think twice. But here, it’s just another bit of software to set up and play with.

I will report back!

I think I might be entering a new phase in my music listening. I listen to a ton of music, on my iPhone, on my computer, in my car, all the time. And up to now it’s always been downloaded (purchased) music that I organize manually within iTunes. From time to time I’ve had subscriptions to eMusic and similar services. As a result I have a huge number of tracks on my computer and on my iPhone. And as my music taste develops, and I discover new artists and composers, lots of those tracks are listened to rarely.

The alternative services like Rhapsody, which has been around for a while. But I ...

We saw the “Jersey Boys” musical in Chicago last night. It’s a lot of fun, even though the sound system at the “Bank of America Theatre” wasn’t up to par. Actually it was pretty awful. The music is great and the story is interesting. Who knew that Joe Pesci had some connection with the Four Seasons?

It makes we want to find a good memoir from one of the Four Seasons describing what it was like. Can you recommend one?

There aren’t many good options for Music notation software. Sibelius is in my opinion the best, which as this software goes is not saying all that much. For it’s functionality it’s quite good, as a piece of elegant and usable software, it gets a “B” at best. Over a month ago Sibelius announced their Version 6. Like any software company they made a much bigger deal of it than the changes would justify. Still there were a few things in it that I wanted.

They started taking orders over a month ago. They have a not very generous deal for upgraders (I already have version 5) but still I...

Pandora is one of my favorite music sites. It’s a quick way to get an infinite play list built around a song that you give it to start with. I’ve become a fan of several artists that I heard on Pandora for the first time. I hear that their catalog of music isn’t nearly as large as some other well known music sites, but I could never tell any lack of grat music. So Pandora is pretty excellent… except they were in danger of going under due royalty rates that they were being charged. Well here’s the good news: “Pandora (And other internet radio) Has Officially Been Saved!”

Ethan Zuckerman writes a great piece about how Paul Simon’s Graceland album came to be, with some of the historical context, backstory and being a xenophile. A great read: “At its best, Graceland sounds like Simon is encountering forces to large for him to understand or control. He’s riding on top of them, offering free-form reflections on a world that’s vastly more complicated and colorful than the narrow places he and Art Garfunkel explored in their close harmonies. In “Boy in the Bubble” (video above), the chorus, “These are the days of miracle and wonder, this is the long distance call” could serve as a tagline for anyone confronting our strange, connected world.” (From ...

Hey, how about doing me a favor? It will only take you a minute or less. It won’t cost a penny. Help the famous and wonderful Club Passim win a grant from, who else, Virgin America.

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I’ve known about Pandora for ages, and the last month or so have been using it again, a lot. It’s quite amazing: constant, free, music. Based on your interests. How does it work? Well just go to Pandora, set up a free account, and indicate, for example, an artist or style you like. It begins playing songs, one after another which people who’ve liked what you like have also liked. You hear a song or artist you don’t know, indicate with a thumb up or down how you like it. That’s it.

I have discovered artists I didn’t know, rediscovered some that I knew, or music that I loved and had not heard before. All for free.

One might ask, in a fa...

Hey! If you live in Boston or Cambridge, and you like music, especially Folk music, then you’ve probably been to Club Passim in Cambridge – Harvard Square actually. It’s a lot more than a ‘Coffee House’ – it’s an institution where many of your favorite 70s acts got their start. Passim is a tiny little folk music club in Harvard Square that’s existed years and years and where musicians like Joan Baez and Bob Dylan played at the very beginning of their careers. I am friends with various people at Passim, over the year we have attended lots of shows there.

We have been members for ...

As a favor I am posting this notice about an event that looks like it might be fun: Battle of the Bands

The requirement is that at least one member of the band must work for a New England-area technology or life sciences company or a venture-capital or private-equity firm that invests in technology. All levels of bands are welcome—from club veterans to garage hackers. All musical styles are welcome – entry deadline is Dec 12, 2008.

The event will take place on January 22, 2009 at the Middle East in Cambridge. Last year Jeet “Miki” Singh, co-fou...

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I just came across this announcement for the ‘Battle of the Tech Bands’ on January 22 in Central Square (Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.) “Musicians from Boston’s tech and tech-investment companies play their geeky hearts out—you pick the winners!”

Sounds like fun! Check out the Battle of the Tech Bands here!

iLike is this really cool, really popular service which compares the music you like with others’ tastes as they play music in iTunes. It’s a handy way to discover new music. As you can see in the screenshot to the left, it displays all this in a very nice little window to the right of the iTunes window. All very cool.

Not only do you see other related music that I may be interested in, it also offers me downloads of free, up and coming artists who might interest me.

And then, it shows me nice litte pictures of other iLike users who listen to Beethoven or whoever.

Regular readers of this blog know about AllOfMp3.com, a Russian music site that sells music of all kinds for a ridiculously low price. It’s kind of like the iTunes or EMusic store, but at a fraction of the price. Every so often there is news that they are about to be shut down because they are fraudulently selling copyrighted music. They say that what they are doing is strictly legal by Russian law.

I don’t know who is right. But as they say, “If it seems too good to be true, then it probably isn’t true…”

Anyway, from time to time their ability to be paid via credit card (like Visa etc.) is disabled....

Today we hear that EMI is going to sell DRM-free music over the iTunes Store. I haven’t studied the fine print yet, but it’s clearly a big deal no matter how it reads. Here’s an interesting look back at Napster who in a way started it all. Check out this post from Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: ** Shawn Fanning created Napster in his dorm room at Northeastern. It was the fastest-growing application in the history of the Internet. We changed the world but failed to achieve business success. Here is a glimpse into the inside story of Napster, and at the end, some lessons learned for entrepreneurs.

(from**: How Napster changed the world – A look back 7 years later)

I’ve written about AllOfMp3.com before. I can’t say other than it’s a pirated music site. You can buy mp3’s of music of all kinds, from a nice catalog, at ridiculously low prices (like $3 or less for a complete album.)

Some wags have suggested that AllofMp3 proves that people are totally willing to pay for downloaded music as long as the price is right. Yeah, like people are totally willing to pay for a BMW as long as the price is right. Other rumors have been that AllOfMp3 is always one step away from being shut down because the WTO has made closing down of ...

Came across Jonathan Coulton, the songwriter who embarked on a ridiculous challenge to write a song each week, for a whole year. Quite a crazy thing, but he pulled it off.

“Thing a Week is a project I’ve been working on since September 2005 in which I record and post a song a week as a podcast. It’s a way for me to keep the creative juices flowing as freely as possible, and a way for me to push myself to take risks, work quickly and trust in the creative process. It’s also a form of protest – I will keep doing this until someone pays me to do it.” (from Thing a Week)

One of my all time favorites, that you gotta check out, ...

I was probably the last one to hear about AllofMp3.com. It’s this massive, well organized and apparently solid Mp3 download site. Music is not free, but extremely cheap. It’s apparently hosted in Russia or somewhere else.

The question is of course, “is it legal” and “is it ethical”? Friends of mine who’ve known about it for years (claim to) never use it. I have to say it gives me pause to download the whole “Tapestry” Album (Carole King, from the Jurasic Period) for something like $1.50. Ridonculous.

There apparently have been lawsuits trying to shut down the site. Just today I there’s talk about another one: “...

One of my favorite singer songwriters, Susan Werner, somehow has gotten herself into a “patriotic song contest” on the Huffington Post Blog. It’s a funny song, and Susan Werner is absolutely awesome! Check out the song!

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I’ve experimented with all kinds of novel music related services and products.

My favorite is Pandora. This is a a site that helps me discover new music that I like. It’s introduced me to several artists that I had never heard of before which are now favorites. In this case I am plugging Beth Nielsen Chapman. A wonderful singer songwriter, I think from Europe, that has the sound I really like. It’s quite wonderful to create a Bob Dylan or Joni Mitchell or Bill Evans channel discover new artists.

It’s great!

By the way, also of interest are:

Last.FM – An application that is supposed to do something simi...

This is kind of cool.

I am playing around with the Last.FM music service.

Among the many things it does, is that It ‘watches’ everything you play with iTunes to figure out your music tastes. And then with that, Last.FMrecommends music that you might like.

What caught my eye is the first use of the famous ‘long tail’ graph as a User Interface element. You can drag the vertical bar right and left to affect whether the recommended music is more in the popular or obscure range of possibilities. Cute!

Technorati Tags: cool, longtail

Irene goodnight, Irene goodnight

Goodnight Irene, goodnight Irene

I’ll see you in my dreams

Last Saturday night I got married

Me and my wife settled down

Now me and my wife are parted

Gonna take another stroll downtown

Sometimes I live in the country

Sometimes I live in the town

Sometimes I get a great notion

To jump in the river and drown

Well I asked your mother for you

She told me you was too young

I wish to the Lord I’d never seen your face

Or heard your lying tongue

Stop your rambling, stop your gambling

Stop staying out late at night

Go home to your wife and your family

Stay home by the fireside bright

I love Irene God knows I do

Love her to the day I die

If Irene turns her back on me

I’ll take morphine and die

(If you know why I posted this then you know why I posted this 🙂

Technorati Tags: blues

This little gem really works! A StarTrek cool little device that sits on top of your stereo or TV set. It’s called a Roku Soundbridge M1000. Has a remote control, built-in Wi-fi (which DOESN”T MEAN wireless fidelity, darn it) and various audio-outs to connect to your amplifier. Simple as pie.

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Robin Good points to: “The Myth of The Rock Star and of the Need To Sing-up For a Major Recording Label”:

“Music” does not equal “compact disc”. Music is data. It doesn’t matter whether you burn it to a CD or rip it to an iPod or a Memory Stick or store it on your hard drive. It’s still music.

**Take a minute to internalize this concept. **

Once you get past the notion that music has to come in the form of a shiny little Frisbee that retails for $16.99 at your local MegaSuperMusicPavilion, certain other truths tha...

I Just came back from seeing ‘Falsettos‘, an unusual (and unusually good) musical, at the Huntington Theatre, in Boston. The themes cover the gamut from family, children, love, judaism, homosexuality, life and death. The music is unusual and complex and very nice. I recommend it highly. So much that I also just got the music from iTunes!

Technorati Tags: music, recommended