Some music links:
- A very rich source of specific information on music as well as useful other material is at
dolmetsch online; just try the "music theory"
link under the resources tab. Links to other excellent sites, such as how to improvise jazz.
A beautifully crafted site with fantastic resources.
- Apart from playing the violin I also do a little teaching, arranging and composing,
and have found score-writing software indispensable; I use a terrific program called
Capella, which costs under £100. Try it (free demo download) and buy
it at Software Partners
They have a range of very good music programmes as well as other useful software. Not only that, but top-rate technical support. I had a problem in January 2010 with an old version of the
Capella-scan music recognition software that they resolved over a few email exchanges within an hour!
- Do you need a string quartet for an event? In the 70s I played quartets once a week at Pizza
Express in Coptic Street, and still play chamber music frequently with colleagues, in concerts,
at weddings and parties, and just for our own enjoyment. Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Bach, Cole Porter,
Bernstein..... email me at the address at the bottom of this page if you're interested.
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Click the ticket to hear some New Zealand music I played in NZ House in 1976 |
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About 30 years ago I bought an old HMV Model No. 101E wind-up portable gramophone along with some old 78s. This is one of them, unmastered - I just stuck a mic in front of the gramophone. (There's a cleaner one on YouTube.) It's a very funny Comedy Fox-trot called "Rhymes" featuring Jack Hylton and his Dance Band, with Lesley Sarony singing some limericks. There's a clean side and, after a pause, Mr Sarony introduces the not-so-clean-after-all side.
Just click the record label to listen to the 5'41" mp3 file (5.3MB)
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More audio files:
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This is Oscar, who's usually a bass guitarist, playing around with
Summertime (mp3, 3.645MB) on his Ibanez guitar and Cubase.
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George plays bass guitar too; here he is with his
own composition (mp3, 2.72MB) for AS Music 2007, and also playing
Portrait of Tracy (mp3, 1.87MB), a favourite composition by the legendary bass genius Jaco Pastorius.
- Now a favourite song of mine, a beautiful setting by Herbert Howells of a wonderful poem by Walter de la Mare: King David (mp3, 6.252MB), performed by two fine musicians,
Catherine Denley
and Howard Arman. Here are the
words of the poem.
- This is a horrible rendition of Supermario
- And for something different rap your ears round IBK Tribe
- Here's Tom Dibb and Oscar's first video, released in 2007 -
Rooftops
- If you like the sound of the marimba here's an audio snapshot of Olly and Oscar messing about with a Hungarian folk tune they knew from a Bartok collection for young pianists - including an uninvited mobile creeping sub-dominantly in at the end.
Browsing tip: if you haven't discovered right-clicking,
you're missing out on a smoother, more-satisfying browser experience. Try right-clicking once
on a link, then left-click "Open in New Tab", and you can easily switch between tabs -
open as many as you like. Easier still, try left-clicking whilst holding the Shift or Control key -
but different browsers allocate different functions to these.
If you are having trouble playing those audio files,
just right-click and then left-click "Save target as...", choose a location,
maybe your Desktop, to save it, then click the icon on your desktop to play the file.
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