On 9 Jan 03 10:31:01 GMT, I wrote: > I've got sheet music for some 19th century military bugle calls and > I'd like to hear what they sound like and maybe create .wavs to put > on a web site. I'm looking for some combination of software that will > allow me to enter the score for each call and then say 'play this on > a bugle'. Any suggestions on how to proceed? I'm basically musically > illiterate.
Many thanks for the suggestions. I've gone with rosegarden for editing scores and timidity for playback. I'm also looking at denemo. For the record, I have installed rosegarden, timidity and timidity-patches (unstable versions). I run timidity with the -iA option to act as an ALSA sequencer client. When I run the rosegarden sequencer it automagically detects it and uses it for MIDI output. I use the trumpet patch (number 56) from timidity-patches to represent the bugle, since a bugle is supposedly just a trumpet without valves. It took me a little while to work out that rosegarden expects it's own files to have .rose extensions and MIDI files to have .mid extensions; makes the file requesters a bit more useful. The scores I'm working from were printed in 1806 so they are in modern notation with what appear to be a few anacronisms. For example, 4/4 time is often represented by a "C" after the clef (for "common time" I presume). Some have no time notation but from the placement of bars appear to be in 2/4, 4/4 and even 9/4[1] time. I'm having a fun time with google researching musical notation. Once I've got a good-sized collection together I'll put the MIDI files and corresponding .oggs on the web if anyone's interested in checking them out. [1] 9/4 or "perfect" time. See, I'm not so musically illiterate anymore. Frank -- Home Page: <URL:http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fjc/> Not the Scientology Home Page: <URL:http://xenu.apana.org.au/ntshp/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
